Bible verses about "perfectionism" | NSB

¹⁵ The law produces wrath (violent passion) (indignation). But where there is no law there is no sin.

¹ Put away all badness and all deception, hypocrisy, envy, and all evil talk. ² Like newborn infants, long for the spiritual milk that is without deception to help you grow to salvation. ³ You have tasted that the Lord is kind. ⁴ You came to him, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen and precious with God. ⁵ You also as living stones are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. ⁶ The scriptures say: »I lay in Zion a chief corner stone, chosen and precious (Isaiah 28:16). He who believes in him will not be disappointed (shamed).« ⁷ This precious value is for those who believe. But for the unbeliever: »The stone that the builders rejected became the cornerstone.« ⁸ It is a stone that people stumble over, and a large rock that people find offensive. They stumble because they are disobedient to the word. To this end they were appointed. ⁹ You are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, and a people for God’s own possession, that you may show the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. ¹⁰ In time past you were no people, but now you are the people of God. You had not then received, but now have received mercy (compassion) (divine kindness). ¹¹ Beloved, I request that you as aliens and strangers abstain from fleshly lust (desires), which causes conflict in you. ¹² Maintain fine behavior among the nations. That way when they speak badly about you, they may see your good works and glorify God in the day of visitation (inspection). ¹³ Be subject to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether it is to the king, ¹⁴ or to governors, as sent by him for vengeance on evildoers and for praise to those who do good. ¹⁵ It is God’s will that you do the right things and that this will silence the ignorance of foolish men. ¹⁶ Be free, and yet do not use your freedom for a covering for evil, but as servants of God. ¹⁷ Honor all people. Love the brotherhood. Reverence and respect God. Honor the king. ¹⁸ Servants, be in subjection to your masters with all respect, not only to the good and gentle master but also to the hard to please. ¹⁹ For this is to your credit to suffer wrongfully and endure grief because of your conscience toward God. ²⁰ What value is there when you sin, and are buffeted for it, you take it patiently? But if, when you do well and suffer for it, you take it patiently, this is acceptable with God. ²¹ For this you were called because Christ also suffered for you. He left you an example (a copy for imitation) (a model) that you should follow in his steps. ²² He committed no sin and deception was not found in him. ²³ When he was reviled (insulted), he did not revile in return. When he suffered he did not threaten, but committed himself to him that judges righteously. ²⁴ He bore our sins in his body upon the stake, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed because of his wounds (stripes). ²⁵ For you were straying like sheep. But now you have returned to your shepherd and overseer.

³¹ »Your way is perfect Jehovah. Your word is correct. You are a shield for those who run to you for help.

¹⁵ Jesus said: »You make yourselves look righteous to other people. God knows your hearts. The things considered of great value by people are worth nothing in God’s sight.

¹ Brothers, I did not come to you with superiority of speech or with human wisdom, declaring to you the testimony of God. ² I decided not to know anything among you, except Jesus Christ and his death on the torture stake. ³ And I came to you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling. ⁴ My speech and my preaching were not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, ⁵ that your faith should not exist in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. ⁶ How is it we speak wisdom among those who are mature, yet not the wisdom of this age, or of the rulers of this age, who come to nothing (are doomed to destruction)? ⁷ We speak the wisdom of God in a secret, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the ages (generations and human entities) for our glory. ⁸ None of the rulers of this age knew (understood) for had they known it they would not have impaled the glorious Lord (esteemed Master). ⁹ It is written: »Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, and it has not entered into the heart of man, the things God prepared for those who love him.« (Isaiah 64:4) ¹⁰ But God revealed them to us by his Spirit. For the Spirit investigates (searches) all things, yes even the deep things of God. ¹¹ For what man knows the things of a man, except the mental disposition that is in man? Even so no one knows the things of God, but the Spirit of God. ¹² Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit that is from God. This is so we might know the things that are freely given to us from God. ¹³ We speak these things, not in the words that man's wisdom teaches. But we speak them with the words the Holy Spirit teaches comparing spiritual things with spiritual things. ¹⁴ But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God. They are foolishness to him! He cannot know them, because they are spiritually discerned. ¹⁵ He that is spiritual judges all things, yet no man judges him. ¹⁶ »Who has understood the mind of Jehovah, or has instructed him, as his counselor?« (Isaiah 40:13) But we do have the mind (purpose) (feelings) (thoughts) (understanding) of Christ.

² We all stumble in many things. If any do not stumble in word, he is a perfect man, able to restrain (control) the whole body. ³ Are you so foolish? After starting in the Spirit, are you now made perfect (mature) in the flesh?

²⁰ There is no man on earth who is righteous and does not sin.

⁹ If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

¹² Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect. But I press on, that I may obtain that for which Christ Jesus also obtained. ¹³ Brothers, I could not yet have obtained it. But one thing I do, I forget the things that are behind, and stretch forward to the things that are ahead. ¹⁴ I press on toward the goal to the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

¹ Those who live through (in union with) (because of) Jesus Christ have no condemnation. [They do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.] ² The law of the Spirit gives us life through (with) (because of) Christ Jesus. It has set me free from the law of sin and death. ³ God did what the Law could not do, because human nature was weak. He sent his own son in the likeness of sinful man to be a sin offering and do away with sin. So he condemned sin in sinful human nature. ⁴ God did this so that the righteous requirements of the Law might be fully satisfied in us who live according to the Spirit, and not according to human nature. ⁵ They who live according to flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh. They who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. ⁶ The mind of sinful flesh (fleshly thought) means death; but the mind influenced by the Spirit gives life and peace. ⁷ This is because the mind of the flesh is hostile toward God. It is not subject to the law of God for it cannot be. ⁸ Those influenced by the sinful flesh cannot please God. ⁹ But you are not in flesh but in Spirit, if indeed God’s Spirit dwells in you. If any one does not have the Spirit of Christ he does not belong to him. ¹⁰ If Christ is with you, the body is dead on account of sin, but the Spirit is life on account of righteousness. ¹¹ If the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from among the dead dwells with you, he who raised Christ from among the dead shall also make your mortal bodies alive. This is on account of his Spirit that dwells with you. ¹² So then, brothers we are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live according to flesh (human nature), ¹³ for if you live according to flesh, you are about to die. If by the Spirit, you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. ¹⁴ All who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. ¹⁵ For you have not received a spirit of bondage again causing fear, but you have received a spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Father, Father! (Chaldee: Abba, meaning father). ¹⁶ The Spirit itself (Greek:autos ho pneuma) (itself the Spirit) bears witness with our spirit (mind and heart), that we are children of God. ¹⁷ If children, then heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ. If indeed we suffer with him we may also be glorified with him. ¹⁸ I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that will be revealed in us. ¹⁹ For the earnest expectation of the creation is waiting for the manifestation (revelation) (disclosure) of the sons of God. ²⁰ For the creation was subject to corruption, not by it’s own will but by reason of the one who subjected it on the basis of hope. ²¹ The creation will also be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. ²² For we know that the whole creation groans and is in pain together until now. ²³ We also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption and the release from our bodies by ransom. ²⁴ We are saved by this hope. But hope that is seen is not hope. For does a man hope for what he sees? ²⁵ If we hope for what we do not see, do we have patience to wait for it? ²⁶ Likewise the Spirit also helps our weaknesses. We do not know what we should pray for, as we should. The Spirit [of God] makes intercession with groaning that cannot be spoken. ²⁷ So he who searches the hearts knows what is the inclination (purpose) (mind-set) of the Spirit [of God], because the Spirit makes intercession for the holy ones according to the will of God. ²⁸ We know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose. ²⁹ Those he first recognized, he ordained in advance that they be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. ³⁰ He ordained in advance the ones he called. He declared righteous the ones he called. He also glorified those he declared righteous. ³¹ What shall we then say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? ³² He that did not spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, will he not with him freely give us all things? ³³ Who will bring any charge against the ones God has chosen? It is God who justifies (makes righteous). ³⁴ Who is he that condemns? It is Christ that died, yes rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. ³⁵ Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? ³⁶ It is written: »For your sake we are put to death all day long. We are considered as sheep for the slaughter.« (Psalm 44:22) ³⁷ In all these things we are more than conquerors through 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, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Ephesians 6:12)

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

⁹ He told me: »My grace is sufficient for you for my strength is made perfect in weakness.« Most gladly therefore, I would rather glory in my infirmities (frailities), that the power of Christ may rest upon me (cover me like a tent) (descend upon me) (abide with me). (Isaiah 40:29-31) ¹⁰ Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then I am strong.