PERFECTION

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• Genesis 6:8

  But Noah found favor in Yahweh’s eyes.

• Genesis 6:9

  This is the history of the generations of Noah: Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God.

• Genesis 17:1

  When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty. Walk before me, and be blameless.

• Numbers 23:21

  He has not seen iniquity in Jacob. Neither has he seen perverseness in Israel. Yahweh his God is with him. The shout of a king is among them.

• Deuteronomy 5:32

  You shall observe to do therefore as Yahweh your God has commanded you. You shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.

• Deuteronomy 18:13

  You shall be perfect with Yahweh your God.

• Joshua 23:6

  “Therefore be very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, that you not turn aside from it to the right hand or to the left;

• 1 Kings 8:61

  “Let your heart therefore be perfect with Yahweh our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as it is today.”

• 1 Kings 11:4

  When Solomon was old, his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not perfect with Yahweh his God, as the heart of David his father was.

• 1 Kings 11:6

  Solomon did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and didn’t go fully after Yahweh, as David his father did.

• 1 Kings 15:14

  But the high places were not taken away. Nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect with Yahweh all his days.

• 1 Chronicles 28:9

  You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

• 1 Chronicles 29:19

  and give to Solomon my son a perfect heart, to keep your commandments, your testimonies, and your statutes, and to do all these things, and to build the palace, for which I have made provision.”

• 2 Chronicles 6:36

  “If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn’t sin), and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to a land far off or near;

• Job 1:1

  There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.

• Job 9:20

  Though I am righteous, my own mouth shall condemn me. Though I am blameless, it shall prove me perverse.

• Job 9:21

  I am blameless. I don’t respect myself. I despise my life.

• Psalms 18:32

  the God who arms me with strength, and makes my way perfect?

• Psalms 37:31

  The law of his God is in his heart. None of his steps shall slide.

• Psalms 37:37

  Mark the perfect man, and see the upright, for there is a future for the man of peace.

• Psalms 101:2

  I will be careful to live a blameless life. When will you come to me? I will walk within my house with a blameless heart.

• Psalms 106:3

  Blessed are those who keep justice. Blessed is one who does what is right at all times.

• Psalms 119:1

  ALEPH Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to Yahweh’s law.

• Psalms 119:2

  Blessed are those who keep his statutes, who seek him with their whole heart.

• Psalms 119:3

  Yes, they do nothing wrong. They walk in his ways.

• Psalms 119:6

  Then I wouldn’t be disappointed, when I consider all of your commandments.

• Psalms 119:96

  I have seen a limit to all perfection, but your commands are boundless. MEM

• Proverbs 2:21

  For the upright will dwell in the land. The perfect will remain in it.

• Ecclesiastes 7:20

  Surely there is not a righteous man on earth, who does good and doesn’t sin.

• Matthew 5:6

  Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.

• Matthew 5:48

  Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.

• Matthew 19:21

  Jesus said to him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”

• Luke 1:6

  They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.

• Luke 6:40

  A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone when he is fully trained will be like his teacher.

• John 1:47

  Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said about him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!”

• 1 Corinthians 2:6

  We speak wisdom, however, among those who are full grown; yet a wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nothing.

• 2 Corinthians 7:1

  Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

• 2 Corinthians 13:9

  For we rejoice when we are weak and you are strong. And this we also pray for, even your perfecting.

• 2 Corinthians 13:11

  Finally, brothers, rejoice. Be perfected, be comforted, be of the same mind, live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.

• Ephesians 4:11

  He gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, shepherds and teachers;

• Ephesians 4:12

  for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Christ;

• Ephesians 4:13

  until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a full grown man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ;

• Philippians 1:10

  so that you may approve the things that are excellent; that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ;

• Philippians 2:15

  that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

• Philippians 3:12

  Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, if it is so that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

• Philippians 3:13

  Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do. Forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before,

• Philippians 3:14

  I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

• Philippians 3:15

  Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, think this way. If in anything you think otherwise, God will also reveal that to you.

• Colossians 1:21

  You, being in past times alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil deeds,

• Colossians 1:22

  yet now he has reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without defect and blameless before him,

• Colossians 1:28

  whom we proclaim, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus;

• Colossians 2:9

  For in him all the fullness of the Godhead dwells bodily,

• Colossians 2:10

  and in him you are made full, who is the head of all principality and power;

• Colossians 2:11

  in whom you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ;

• Colossians 3:14

  Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.

• Colossians 4:12

  Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, salutes you, always striving for you in his prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.

• 1 Thessalonians 3:10

  night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face, and may perfect that which is lacking in your faith?

• 1 Thessalonians 3:13

  to the end he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

• 2 Timothy 2:1

  You therefore, my child, be strengthened in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.

• 2 Timothy 3:17

  that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

• Hebrews 6:1

  Therefore leaving the teaching of the first principles of Christ, let us press on to perfection — not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, of faith toward God,

• Hebrews 10:14

  For by one offering he has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.

• Hebrews 13:20

  Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus,

• Hebrews 13:21

  make you complete in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

• James 1:4

  Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

• James 1:25

  But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom, and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.

• James 3:2

  For in many things we all stumble. If anyone doesn’t stumble in word, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also.

• 1 Peter 5:10

  But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.

• 1 John 2:5

  But whoever keeps his word, God’s love has most certainly been perfected in him. This is how we know that we are in him:

• 1 John 3:6

  Whoever remains in him doesn’t sin. Whoever sins hasn’t seen him and doesn’t know him.

• 1 John 3:7

  Little children, let no one lead you astray. He who does righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.

• 1 John 3:8

  He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. To this end the Son of God was revealed: that he might destroy the works of the devil.

• 1 John 3:9

  Whoever is born of God doesn’t commit sin, because his seed remains in him; and he can’t sin, because he is born of God.

• 1 John 3:10

  In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the devil. Whoever doesn’t do righteousness is not of God, neither is he who doesn’t love his brother.

• 1 John 4:12

  No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.

• 1 John 5:18

  We know that whoever is born of God doesn’t sin, but he who was born of God keeps himself, and the evil one doesn’t touch him.