Bible verses about "perfectionism" | Murdock

¹⁵ For the law is a worker of wrath; because where no law is, there is no transgression of law.

¹ Therefore, cease ye from all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisy, and envy, and backbiting. ² And be like infant children; and crave the word, as being the pure spiritual milk by which ye are nourished up to life; ³ if ye have tasted and seen that the Lord is good: ⁴ to whom ye have come, because he is a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but with God elect and precious. ⁵ And ye also, as living stones, are builded and become spiritual temples, and holy priests, for the offering of spiritual sacrifices, acceptable before God, through Jesus the Messiah. ⁶ For it is said in the scripture, Behold, in Zion I lay a chosen and precious stone, for the head of the corner; and whoever believeth in him, will not be ashamed. ⁷ On you therefore who believe, is this honor conferred: but to them who believe not, ⁸ he is a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence. And they stumble at it, because they believe not the word: whereto they were appointed. ⁹ But ye are an elect race, officiating as priests of the kingdom; a holy people, a redeemed congregation; that ye should proclaim the praises of him who called you out of darkness to his precious light: ¹⁰ who formerly were not accounted a people, but now are the people of God; and also, there were once no mercies on you, but now mercies are poured out upon you. ¹¹ My beloved, I entreat you as strangers and pilgrims, separate yourselves from all lusts of the body; for they war against the soul. ¹² And let your behavior be decorous before all men; so that they who utter evil speeches against you, may see your good actions, and may praise God in the day of trial. ¹³ And be ye submissive to all the sons of men, for God's sake; to kings, on account of their authority; ¹⁴ and to judges, because they are sent by him for the punishment of offenders, and for the praise of them that do well. ¹⁵ For so is the pleasure of God, that by your good deeds ye may stop the mouth of the foolish, who know not God: ¹⁶ as free men, yet not like men who make their freedom a cloak for their wickedness, but as the servants of God. ¹⁷ Honor all men; love your brethren; fear God; and honor kings. ¹⁸ And those among you who are servants, be subject to your masters, with reverence; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the harsh and morose. ¹⁹ For there is favor before God for them who, for the sake of a good conscience, endure sorrows that come upon them wrongfully. ²⁰ But they who endure afflictions on account of their offences, what praise have they? But if, when ye do well, they vex you, and ye endure it; then great is your praise with God. ²¹ For unto this were ye called; because the Messiah also died for us, and left us this pattern, that ye should walk in his steps. ²² He did no sin; neither was guile found in his mouth. ²³ When he was reviled, be reviled not; and he suffered and threatened not, but committed his cause to the Judge of righteousness. ²⁴ And he took away all our sins, and, in his body, lifted them to the cross; that we, when dead to sin, might live by his righteousness: for by his wounds, ye are healed. ²⁵ For ye, once went astray, like sheep; but ye have now returned to the Shepherd and Curator of your souls.

¹⁵ And Jesus said to them: Ye are such as justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your heart: for that which is exalted among men, is abominable before God.

¹ And I, my Brethren, when I came to you, did not preach to you the mystery of God in magnificent speech, nor in wisdom. ² And I did not govern myself among you, as if I knew any thing, except only Jesus Messiah; and him also as crucified. ³ And in much fear and much trembling, was I with you. ⁴ And my speech and my preaching were not with the persuasiveness of the discourses of wisdom; but with the demonstration of the Spirit, and with power: ⁵ that your faith might not arise from the wisdom of men, but from the power of God. ⁶ Yet we do speak wisdom, among the perfect; the wisdom not of this world, nor of the potentates of this world, who will come to naught. ⁷ But we speak the wisdom of God, in a mystery; the wisdom which was hidden, and which God predetermined before the world was, for our glory: ⁸ which no one of the potentates of this world knew; for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. ⁹ But, as it is written: The eye hath not seen, nor hath the ear heard, nor hath it entered into the heart of man, that which God hath prepared for those who love him. ¹⁰ But God hath revealed it to us, by his Spirit; for the Spirit exploreth all things, even the profound things of God. ¹¹ For what man is there, who knoweth that which is in a man, except it be the spirit of the man, which is in him? So also, that which is in God, no one knoweth, except the Spirit of God. ¹² Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God; that we might know the free gifts, which are given to us by God. ¹³ Which things we also speak; not in the teaching of the words of man's wisdom, but in the teaching of the spirit; and we compare spirituals with spirituals. ¹⁴ For a man in his natural self, receiveth not spirituals; for they are foolishness to him. Neither can he know them; for they are discerned by the Spirit. ¹⁵ But he that is spiritual, judgeth of all things: and he is judged of by no one. ¹⁶ For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct him? But we have the mind of Messiah.

² For we all offend in many things. Whoever offendeth not in discourse, is a perfect man, who can also keep his whole body in subjection. ³ Are ye so foolish, that having begun in the Spirit, ye now would consummate in the flesh?

⁹ But if we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous, to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all our iniquity.

¹² Not as though I had already taken the prize, or were already complete; but I run in the race, if so I may take that, for which Jesus the Messiah took me. ¹³ My brethren, I do not consider myself, as having taken it. But one thing I know, that I forget the things behind me, and reach for the things before me; ¹⁴ and I run straight for the goal, that I may obtain the prize of victory of the call of God from on high, by Jesus the Messiah.

¹ There is therefore no condemnation, to them who, in Jesus Messiah, walk not after the flesh. ² For the law of the spirit of life, which is in Jesus Messiah, hath emancipated thee from the law of sin and death. ³ Inasmuch as the law was impotent, by means of the weakness of the flesh, God sent his Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin; that He might, in his flesh, condemn sin; ⁴ so that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us; since it is not in the flesh that we walk, but in the Spirit. ⁵ For they who are in the flesh, do mind the things of the flesh: and they who are of the Spirit, do mind the things of the Spirit. ⁶ For minding the things of the flesh, is death; but minding the things of the Spirit, is life and peace. ⁷ Because minding the things of the flesh, is enmity towards God: for it doth not subject itself to the law of God, because it is not possible. ⁸ And they who are in the flesh cannot Please God. ⁹ Ye, however, are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit; if the Spirit of God truly dwelleth in you. And if in any one there is not the Spirit of Messiah he is none of his. ¹⁰ But if Messiah is in you, the body is dead, in regard to sin; and the Spirit is alive in regard to righteousness. ¹¹ And if the Spirit of him, who raised our Lord Jesus Messiah from the dead, dwelleth in you; he who raised our Lord Jesus Messiah from the dead, will also vivify your dead bodies, because of his Spirit that dwelleth in you. ¹² Now we are debtors, my Brethren, not to the flesh, that we should walk according to the flesh: ¹³ - (For if ye live according to the flesh, ye are to die. But if, by the Spirit, ye mortify the practices of the body, ye will live. ¹⁴ For they who are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God :) ¹⁵ For ye have not received the spirit of bondage, again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, by which we cry, Father, our Father. ¹⁶ And this Spirit testifieth to our spirit, that we are the sons of God. ¹⁷ And if sons, then heirs; heirs of God, and participators of the inheritance of Jesus Messiah: so that, if we suffer with him, we shall also be glorified with him. ¹⁸ For I reckon, that the sufferings of the present time, are not comparable with the glory which is to be developed in us. ¹⁹ For the whole creation is hoping and waiting for the development of the sons of God. ²⁰ For the creation was subjected to vanity, not by its own choice, but because of him who subjected it, ²¹ in the hope, that also the creation itself would be emancipated from the bondage of corruption, into the liberty of the glory of the sons of God. ²² For we know, that all the creatures are groaning and travailing in pain unto this day. ²³ And not only they, but we also in whom are the first fruits of the Spirit, we groan within ourselves, and look anxiously for the adoption of sons, the redemption of our bodies. ²⁴ Because we live in hope. But hope that is seen, is not hope: for if we saw it, how should we hope for it? ²⁵ But if we hope for that which is not seen, we are in patient waiting. ²⁶ So also the Spirit aideth our weakness. For we know not what to pray for, in a proper manner; but the Spirit prayeth for us, with groans not expressible: ²⁷ and the explorer of hearts, he knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit; because he prayeth for the saints, agreeably to the good pleasure of God. ²⁸ And we know that he aideth him in all things, for good, who love God; them whom he predestined to be called. ²⁹ And he knew them, previously; and he sealed them with the likeness of the image of his Son; that He might be the first-born of many brothers. ³⁰ And those whom he previously sealed, them he called: and those whom he called, them he justified: and those whom he justified, them he glorified. ³¹ What then shall we say of these things? If God is for us; who is against us? ³² And, if he spared not his Son, but gave him up for us all, how shall he not give us all things, with him? ³³ Who will set himself against the chosen of God? It is God who justifieth. ³⁴ Who is it that condemneth? Messiah died, and arose, and is on the right hand of God, and maketh intercession for us. ³⁵ What will sever me from the love of Messiah? Will affliction? or distress? or persecution? or famine? or nakedness? or peril? or the sword? ³⁶ As it is written: For thy sake, we die daily: and, we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. ³⁷ But in all these things we are victorious, by means of him who loved us. ³⁸ For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, ³⁹ nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, will be able to sever me from the love of God, which is in our Lord Jesus Messiah.

⁸ And if we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

⁹ And he said to me, My grace is sufficient for thee; for my power is perfected in weakness. Gladly, therefore, will I glory in my infirmities, that the power of the Messiah may rest upon me. ¹⁰ Therefore I have pleasure in infirmities, in reproach, in afflictions, in persecutions, in distresses, which are for the Messiah's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.