Bible verses about "perfectionism" | Bishops

¹⁵ Because the lawe causeth wrath. For where no lawe is, there is no transgression

¹ Wherefore lay asyde all maliciousnesse, and all guile, and faynednesse, and enuie, and all backbityng ² And as newe borne babes, desire ye ye milke of the worde, which is without deceipt: that ye may growe therby [vnto saluatio ³ If so be that ye haue tasted howe gratious the Lorde is ⁴ To whom ye come, as vnto a lyuyng stone, disalowed of men, but chosen of God and precious ⁵ And ye as lyuely stones, be you made a spirituall house, an holy priesthood, for to offer vp spirituall sacrifices, acceptable to God by Iesus Christe ⁶ Wherefore it is conteyned also in the scripture: beholde, I put in Sion a stone to be laide in the chiefe corner, elect and precious, and he that beleueth on hym, shall not be confounded ⁷ Unto you therfore which beleue, he is precious: but vnto them whiche beleue not, the stone which the buylders refused, the same is made the head of the corner ⁸ And a stone that men stumble at, and a rocke wherat they be offended, whiche stumble at the worde, and beyng disobedient, vnto the whiche thing they were euen ordeyned ⁹ But ye are a chosen generation, a royall priesthood, an holy nation, a peculier people: that ye should shewe foorth the vertues of hym that called you out of darknesse into his marueylous lyght ¹⁰ Which in time past were not a people, but are nowe the people of God: which sometime had not obteyned mercy, but nowe haue obteyned mercy ¹¹ Dearely beloued, I beseche you as straugers and pilgrimes, abstaine from fleshly lustes, whiche fight agaynst the soule ¹² And see that ye haue honest conuersation among the gentiles: that where as they backbite you as euyll doers, they may by your good workes whiche they shall see, prayse God in the day of visitation ¹³ Submit your selues therfore vnto al maner ordinaunce of ma for the Lordes sake: whether it be vnto the king, as hauyng the preeminence ¹⁴ Other vnto rulers, as vnto them that are sent of hym for the punyshment of euyll doers, but for the laude of them that do well ¹⁵ For so is the wyll of God, that with well doyng, ye may stoppe the mouthes of foolishe and ignoraunt men ¹⁶ As free, and not as hauyng the libertie for a cloke of maliciousnes, but euen as the seruauntes of God ¹⁷ Honour all men. Loue brotherly felowship. Feare God. Honour the kyng ¹⁸ Seruauntes, obey your maisters with all feare, not only yf they be good & curteous, but also though they be frowarde ¹⁹ For it is thanke worthy, yf a man for coscience toward god, endure griefe, and suffer wrong vndeserued ²⁰ For what prayse is it, yf when ye be buffeted for your faultes, ye take it paciently? But yf when ye do well ye suffer wrong, & take it paciently, then is there thanke with God ²¹ For herevnto veryly were ye called, for Christe also suffered for vs, leauyng vs an ensample, that ye should folowe his steppes ²² Which did no sinne, neyther was there guyle founde in his mouth ²³ Whiche when he was reuiled, reuiled not agayne: when he suffred, he threatned not, but committed the vengeaunce to him that iudgeth righteously ²⁴ Which his owne selfe bare our sinnes in his body on the tree, that we beyng deliuered from sinne, shoulde liue vnto ryghteousnes: By whose strypes ye were healed ²⁵ For ye were as sheepe goyng astray: but are nowe turned vnto the sheephearde and Byshop of your soules

³¹ God is vncorrupt in his way, the word of the Lord is tryed in the fyre: he is a shielde to all them that trust in him

¹⁵ And he sayde vnto them, Ye are they which iustifie your selues before men: but God knoweth your heartes. For that which is hyghly esteemed among men, is abhominable in the syght of God

¹ And I brethren, when I came to you, came not in gloriousnesse of wordes, or of wisedome, shewing vnto you the testimonie of God ² For I esteemed not to knowe any thyng among you saue Iesus Christe, and hym crucified ³ And I was among you in weaknesse, and in feare, and in much tremblyng ⁴ And my wordes and my preachyng was not with entysing wordes of mans wisedome, but in shewyng of the spirite, and of power ⁵ That your fayth should not stande in the wisedome of men, but in the power of God ⁶ And we speake wisedome among the that are perfite: not the wisedome of this world, neither of the princes of this world, which come to naught ⁷ But we speake the wisedome of God in a misterie [euen] the hyd [wisedome] which God ordeyned before the worlde, vnto our glorie ⁸ Which none of ye princes of this world knewe: For had they knowen it, they woulde not haue crucified the Lorde of glorie ⁹ But as it is written: The eye hath not seen, & the eare hath not heard, neither haue entred into the heart of man, the thynges which God hath prepared for them that loue hym ¹⁰ But God hath reuealed the vnto vs by his spirite: For the spirite searcheth all thinges, yea the deepe thinges of God ¹¹ For what man knoweth the thynges of a man, saue ye spirite of man which is in hym? Euen so, the thinges of God, knoweth no man, but ye spirite of God ¹² And we haue receaued, not the spirite of the worlde, but the spirite which is of God, that we myght know the thinges that are geuen to vs of God ¹³ Which thynges also we speake, not in the wordes which mans wisedome teacheth, but which ye holy ghost teacheth, comparyng spirituall thynges with spirituall thynges ¹⁴ But the naturall man perceaueth not the thynges of ye spirite of God, for they are foolyshenesse vnto hym: Neither can he knowe [them] because they are spiritually discerned ¹⁵ But he that is spirituall, discerneth all thynges, yet he hym selfe is iudged of no man ¹⁶ For who hath knowen the mynde of the Lorde, that he myght instruct hym? But we haue the mynde of Christe

³ Are ye such fooles, that after ye haue begun in the spirite, ye woulde nowe ende in the fleshe

² For in many thynges we sinne all. If a man sinne not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle all the body

²⁰ For there is not one iust vpon earth that doth good, and sinneth not

⁹ If we knowledge our sinnes, he is faythfull & iust to forgeue vs our sinnes, and to clense vs from all vnryghteousnesse

¹² Not as though I had alredy attayned, either were alredy perfect: but I folowe, yf that I may comprehende, wherein also I am comprehended of Christe Iesus ¹³ Brethren I count not my selfe as yet that I haue attained: but this one thing [I say] I forget those thinges which are behynde, and endeuour my selfe vnto those thynges which are before ¹⁴ And I prease towarde the marke, for the price of the hye callyng of God in Christe Iesus

¹ There is then no dampnation to them which are in Christe Iesu, which walke not after the fleshe, but after the spirite ² For the lawe of the spirite of lyfe, through Iesus Christe, hath made me free from the lawe of sinne and death ³ For what the lawe coulde not do, in as much as it was weake through the fleshe, God sendyng his owne sonne, in the similitude of sinfull fleshe, euen by sinne, condempned sinne in the fleshe ⁴ That the ryghteousnesse of the lawe, myght be fulfylled in vs, which walke not after the fleshe, but after the spirite ⁵ For they that are carnall, are carnally mynded: But they that are spirituall, are spiritually mynded ⁶ To be carnally mynded, is death: But to be spiritually mynded, is lyfe & peace ⁷ Because that the fleshly mynde is enmitie agaynst God: For it is not obedient to the lawe of God, neither can be ⁸ So then, they that are in the fleshe, can not please God ⁹ But ye are not in the fleshe, but in the spirite, yf so be that the spirite of God dwell in you. If any man haue not the spirite of Christe, the same is none of his ¹⁰ And yf Christe be in you, the body is dead because of sinne: but the spirite is lyfe for ryghteousnesse sake ¹¹ But, yf ye spirite of hym that raysed vp Iesus from the dead, dwell in you: euen he that raised vp Christe from the dead, shall also quicken your mortall bodyes, because that his spirite dwelleth in you ¹² Therfore brethren, we are detters, not to the fleshe, to lyue after the fleshe ¹³ For if ye liue after ye fleshe, ye shall dye: But if ye through the spirite, do mortifie the deedes of the body, ye shall lyue ¹⁴ For as many as are led by the spirite of God, they are the sonnes of God ¹⁵ For ye haue not receaued the spirite of bondage agayne to feare: but ye haue receaued the spirite of adoption, wherby we cry, Abba, father ¹⁶ The same spirite, beareth witnesse to our spirite, that we are ye sonnes of God ¹⁷ If we be sonnes, then are we also heyres, the heyres of God, and ioyntheyres with Christe: So that we suffer together, that we may be also glorified together ¹⁸ For I am certaynely perswaded that the afflictions of this tyme, are not worthy of the glory which shalbe shewed vpon vs ¹⁹ For the feruent desire of the creature, abydeth lokyng whe the sonnes of God shall appeare ²⁰ Because the creature is subiect to vanitie, not wyllyng, but for hym which hath subdued the same in hope ²¹ For the same creature shalbe made free from the bondage of corruptio, into the glorious libertie of ye sonnes of God ²² For we knowe, that euery creature groneth with vs also, and trauayleth in payne, euen vnto this tyme ²³ Not only [they], but we also which haue the first fruites of the spirite, and we our selues mourne in our selues, and wayte for the adoption, euen the deliueraunce of our body ²⁴ For we are saued by hope: But hope that is seene, is no hope. For howe can a man hope for that which he seeth ²⁵ But and yf we hope for that we see not, the do we with pacience abide for it ²⁶ Lykewyse, the spirite also helpeth our infirmities. For we knowe not what to desire as we ought: but ye spirite maketh great intercession for vs, with gronynges, which can not be expressed ²⁷ And he that searcheth the heartes, knoweth what is the meanyng of the spirite: for he maketh intercession for the saintes accordyng to the pleasure of God ²⁸ For we knowe yt all thinges worke for the best, vnto them that loue God, to them which also are called of purpose ²⁹ For those which he knewe before, he also dyd predestinate, that they shoulde be lyke fashioned vnto the shape of his sonne, that he myght be ye first begotten among many brethren ³⁰ Moreouer, whom he dyd predestinate, the also he called. And whom he called, them also he iustified: And whom he iustified, them he also glorified ³¹ What shall we then say to these thynges? If God be on our syde, who can be agaynst vs ³² Which spared not his owne sonne, but gaue hym for vs all: Howe shall he not with hym also geue vs all thynges ³³ Who shall lay any thyng to the charge of Gods chosen? It is God that iustifieth ³⁴ Who is he that can condempne? It is Christe which dyed, yea rather which is raysed agayne, which is also on the ryght hande of God, and maketh intercession for vs ³⁵ Who shall seperate vs from the loue of God? Shall tribulation or anguishe, or persecution, either hunger, either nakednesse, either peryll, either sworde ³⁶ As it is written: For thy sake are we kylled all daye long, and are counted as sheepe for the slaughter ³⁷ Neuerthelesse, in all these thinges we ouercome, through hym that loued vs ³⁸ For I am sure, that neither death, neither lyfe, neither angels, nor rule, neither power, neither thynges present, neither thynges to come ³⁹ Neither heygth nor deapth, neither any other creature, shalbe able to seperate vs from the loue of God, which is in Christe Iesu our Lorde

⁸ If we say that we haue no sinne, we deceaue our selues, and the trueth is not in vs

⁹ And he sayde vnto me: My grace is sufficient for thee. For my strength is made perfect in weakenesse. Most gladly therfore, I wyll rather glorie in my infirmities, that the power of Christ myght dwell in me ¹⁰ Therfore haue I delectation in infirmities, in rebukes, in necessities, in persecutions, in anguishes for Christes sake: For when I am weake, then am I strong