Bible verses about "perfectionism" | Lamsa

¹⁵ For the law causes provocation; for where there is no law, there is no transgression.

¹ THEREFORE lay aside all malice and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and evil accusations, ² And become like newborn babes, and long for the word, as for pure and spiritual milk, that you may grow to salvation by it: ³ If so be you have tasted and found out that the LORD is good. ⁴ The one to whom you are coming is the living stone, whom men have rejected, and yet he is chosen and precious with God; ⁵ You also, as living stones, build up yourselves and become spiritual temples and holy priests to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. ⁶ For as it is said in the scriptures, Behold, I lay in Sion, a chief corner stone, approved, precious: and he who believes on him shall not be ashamed. ⁷ It is to you who believe, therefore, that this honour is given; but to those who are disobedient, he is a stumbling stone and a stone of trouble. ⁸ And they stumble over it because they are disobedient to the word for which they were appointed. ⁹ But you are a chosen people; ministers to the kingdom, a holy people, a congregation redeemed to proclaim the glories of him who has called you out of darkness to his marvelous light: ¹⁰ You, who in the past were not considered a people, but who are now the people of God: who had not obtained mercy, but who now have mercy poured out upon you. ¹¹ Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from carnal desires, which war against the soul; ¹² And let your conduct be good before all men, so that those who speak evil words against you, may see your good works and glorify God at the day of trial. ¹³ Submit yourselves to all human authority for GodÆs sake: whether it be to kings, because of their power, ¹⁴ Or to judges because from them officers are sent for the punishment of offenders, and to bestow honour on those who do good. ¹⁵ For such is the will of God, that by your good works you may silence the mouth of foolish men, who know not God. ¹⁶ Act as free men, and not as men who use their liberty as a cloak for their maliciousness; but as the servants of God. ¹⁷ Honour all men. Love your brethren. Fear God. Honour the king. ¹⁸ And the servants among you, let them be submissive to their masters with due respect, not only to those who are good and gentle, but also to those who are severe and difficult. ¹⁹ For such men have favor before God; because of a good conscience they endure sorrows which come upon them unjustly. ²⁰ What praise have they who endure suffering because of their faults? But when you do good, and are made to suffer, and you take it patiently, then your glory is greater with God. ²¹ For to this purpose you were called: because Christ also died for us, leaving us an example, that we should follow in his footsteps. ²² Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth: ²³ Who, wen he was reviled, he did not revile again: when he suffered he did not threaten, but committed his cause to him who judges righteously: ²⁴ And he bore all our sins, and lifted them with his body on the cross, that we being dead to sin, should live through his righteousness: and by his wounds you were healed. ²⁵ For you had gone astray like sheep, but you have now returned to the Shepherd and the Guardian of your souls.

¹⁵ But Jesus said to them, You are the ones who make yourselves righteous before men; but God knows your hearts. For what is highly esteemed among men is disgusting in the presence of God.

¹ AND I, my brethren, when I came to you, did not come with excellency of speech, nor did I preach to you with learning the mystery of God. ² For I did not pretend to know anything among you, except Jesus Christ, and even him crucified. ³ And I was with you with much reverence for God and in trembling. ⁴ And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, ⁵ So that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. ⁶ Howbeit we do discuss wisdom with those who have comprehension, yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the rulers of this world who pass away: ⁷ But we discuss the wisdom of God shown in a mysterious way, and it is hidden, but which God ordained before the world for our glory: ⁸ Which none of the rulers of the world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the LORD of glory. ⁹ But as it is written, The eye has not seen, and the ear has not heard, and the heart of man has not conceived the things which God has prepared for those who love him. ¹⁰ But God has revealed them to us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God. ¹¹ For what man knows the mind of man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so, no man knows the mind of God, except the Spirit of God. ¹² Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the spirit that is from God, that we may understand the gifts that are given to us by God. ¹³ For the things which we discuss are not dependent on the knowledge of words and manÆs wisdom, but on the teaching of the Spirit; thus explaining spiritual things to the spiritually minded. ¹⁴ For the material man rejects spiritual things, for they are foolishness to him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. ¹⁵ But the spiritual man discerns every thing, and yet no man can discern him. ¹⁶ For who knows the mind of the LORD, that he may teach it? But we have the perception of Christ.

² For in many things we all stumble. Anyone who does not offend in word, this one is a perfect man, and able also to subdue his whole body. ³ Are you so foolish, after having begun with spiritual things to end now with things of the flesh?

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

¹² Not as though I had already attained or were already perfect; but I am striving, that I may reach that for which Jesus Christ appointed me. ¹³ My brethren, I do not consider that I have reached the goal; but this one thing I do know, forgetting those things which are behind me, I strive for those things which are before me, ¹⁴ I press toward the goal to receive the prize of victory of GodÆs highest calling through Jesus Christ.

¹ THERE is therefore no condemnation to them who walk in the flesh after the Spirit of Jesus Christ. ² For the law of the Spirit of life which is in Jesus Christ has made you free from the law of sin and death. ³ For the law was weak through the weakness of the flesh, so God sent his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin, in order to condemn sin by means of his flesh: ⁴ That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, for we do not walk after the things of the flesh, but after the Spirit. ⁵ For they who are after the flesh, do mind the things of the flesh; but they who are after the Spirit, do mind the things of the Spirit. ⁶ To be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace; ⁷ Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, because it cannot be. ⁸ So then, they who are in the flesh cannot please God. ⁹ But you are not in the flesh, but in the spirit if the Spirit of God truly dwells within you. Now if any man does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to him. ¹⁰ And if Christ is within you, the body is dead because of sin: but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. ¹¹ And if the Spirit of Him who raised our LORD Jesus Christ from the dead dwells within you, so he who raised Jesus Christ from the dead will also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwells within you. ¹² Therefore, my brethren, we are not indebted to the flesh to live after the flesh. ¹³ For if you live after the flesh, you will die: but if you, through the Spirit, subdue the deeds of the body, you shall live. ¹⁴ Those who are led by the Spirit of God, are the sons of God. ¹⁵ For you have not received the spirit of bondage, to be in fear again; but you have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Avon, Father, our Father. ¹⁶ And this Spirit bears witness to our spirit, that we are the children of God: ¹⁷ And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs with Jesus Christ; 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 worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. ¹⁹ For the earnest expectation of all mankind waits for the manifestation of the sons of God. ²⁰ For man was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who gave him free will in the hope he would choose rightly. ²¹ Because man himself shall 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 labors in pain to this day. ²³ And not only they, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, that is, the redemption of our bodies. ²⁴ For we live in hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for if we see it, why should we yet hope? ²⁵ But if we hope for that which we do not see, then do we wait for it in patience. ²⁶ Likewise the Spirit also helps our weaknesses: for we do not know what is right and proper for us to pray for: but the Spirit prays for us with that earnestness which cannot be described. ²⁷ And he who searches the hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, for the Spirit prays for the saints according to the will of God. ²⁸ And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. ²⁹ He knew them in advance and he marked them with the likeness of the image of his Son that he might be the first-born among many brethren. ³⁰ Moreover, those he did mark in advance, he has called, and those he has called, he has declared righteous, and those he has declared righteous, he has glorified. ³¹ What then shall we say concerning these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? ³² If he did not spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, why will he not freely give us all things with him? ³³ Who is to complain against the chosen ones of God? It is God who justifies. ³⁴ Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died and rose again, and he is at the right hand of God making intercession for us. ³⁵ What shall separate me from the love of Christ? tribulation, or imprisonment, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? ³⁶ As it is written, For your sake we die every day, and we are accounted as lambs for the slaughter. ³⁷ But 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 empires, nor armies, nor things present, nor things to come, ³⁹ Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature shall be able to separate me from the love of God, which is in Jesus Christ our LORD.

⁸ 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 you: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore I would rather boast in my infirmities that the power of Christ may rest upon me. ¹⁰ Therefore I am content with infirmities, insults, hardships, persecutions, and imprisonments for ChristÆs sake: for when I am physically weak, then I am mentally strong.