Bible verses about "maturity" | JuliaSmith

³ And not only, but also we boast in affliction: knowing that affliction works perseverance; ⁴ And perseverance, proof; and proof, hope.

¹⁸ And grow ye in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him the glory now and to the day of eternity. Amen.

¹ James, servant of God and the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes in the dispersion, health. ² Deem all joy, my brethren, when ye fall into various trials; ³ Knowing that the proof of your faith works patience. ⁴ And let patience have a perfect work, that ye be perfect and entire, being left behind in nothing. ⁵ If any of you is forsaken of wisdom, let him ask of God, giving to all plainly, blaming not; and it shall be given him. ⁶ And let him ask in faith, being at variance in nothing. For he being at variance is like the surge of the sea being moved by the wind and put in motion. ⁷ For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. ⁸ A man divided in opinion unsteady in all his ways. ⁹ And let the humble brother boast in his elevation: ¹⁰ And the rich, in his humiliation: for as the flower of the grass he shall pass by. ¹¹ For the sun sprang up with heat, and dried up the grass, and its flower fell out, and the decorum of its face was destroyed: so also shall the rich be dried up in his goings. ¹² Happy the man who endures temptation: for being tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to them loving him. ¹³ Let none say being tempted, that I am tempted of God: for God is not tempted of evils, and he tempts none: ¹⁴ And each is tempted from his own lust, being drawn out, and decoyed. ¹⁵ So then lust conceiving, brings forth sin: and sin performed, produces death. ¹⁶ Be not led astray, my dearly beloved brethren. ¹⁷ Every good donation and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom not one change, or shadow of turning. ¹⁸ Having willed he brought forth by the word of truth, for us to be some first fruit of his creatures. ¹⁹ Wherefore, my dearly beloved brethren, let every man be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger: ²⁰ For man s anger works not the justice of God. ²¹ Wherefore having put away all sordid avarice, and excess of wickedness, in meekness receive the implanted word, able to save your souls. ²² And be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. ²³ For if any is a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like a man observing the face of his creation in a mirror: ²⁴ For he observed himself, and went away, and straightway forgot of what kind he was. ²⁵ And he having stooped into the perfect law of liberty, and remained, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of work, he shall be happy in his doing. ²⁶ If any among you seem to be religious, bridling not his tongue, but deceiving his heart, the religion of this one vain. ²⁷ Religion pure and unpolluted before God and the Father is this, To take a view of the orphans and widows in their pressure, to keep himself free from stain from the world.

¹⁸ Fear is not in love; but perfected love casts out fear: for fear has restraint. And he fearing has not been perfected in love.

¹² Not that I have alreaedy attained or have been already perfected: and I pursue, if I also may overtake, for which also I was overtaken by Christ Jesus.

²² And be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. ²³ For if any is a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like a man observing the face of his creation in a mirror: ²⁴ For he observed himself, and went away, and straightway forgot of what kind he was. ²⁵ And he having stooped into the perfect law of liberty, and remained, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of work, he shall be happy in his doing.

¹³ Until we all arrive to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to the perfect man, to the measure of age of the filling up of Christ.

¹ Therefore having left the word of the beginning of Christ, we should go on to perfection; not again laying down the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God, ² Of the teaching of immersions, and placing upon of hands, and of the rising up of the dead, and of eternal judgment. ³ And this will we do, if God even permit.

¹² For also ye ought to be teachers for the time, again ye have need for some one to teach you the elements of the beginning of the sayings of God; and have become those having need of milk, and not of firm food. ¹³ For every one partaking of milk is inexperienced in the word of justice: for he is a child.

¹⁴ That we be no more babes, tossed about, and carried around by every wind of doctrine, in the playing at dice of men, in craft, with the artifice of deceit; ¹⁵ And speaking the truth in love, let us grow up into him in all things, who is the head, Christ:

¹¹ When I was a child, as a child I spake, as a child I thought, as a child I reckoned: and when I had become a man, I left unemployed the things of a child.

²⁰ Brethren, be not children in reflection: but in wickedness act like children, and in reflection be ye perfected.