What Does the Bible Say About God Made Us Perfect?

Hebrews 1:3 ESV / 5 helpful votes

He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,

Proverbs 28:26 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Whoever trusts in his own mind is a fool, but he who walks in wisdom will be delivered.

Proverbs 16:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

The Lord has made everything for its purpose, even the wicked for the day of trouble.

2 Corinthians 4:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

Romans 3:9-10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

What then? Are we Jews any better off? No, not at all. For we have already charged that all, both Jews and Greeks, are under sin, as it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one;

Acts 5:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.

Matthew 19:16-19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And behold, a man came up to him, saying, “Teacher, what good deed must I do to have eternal life?” And he said to him, “Why do you ask me about what is good? There is only one who is good. If you would enter life, keep the commandments.” He said to him, “Which ones?” And Jesus said, “You shall not murder, You shall not commit adultery, You shall not steal, You shall not bear false witness, Honor your father and mother, and, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

Jeremiah 17:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?

1 John 3:4 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.

James 5:14-15 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.

James 2:10 ESV / 1 helpful vote

For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become accountable for all of it.

James 2:8 ESV / 1 helpful vote

If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.

Galatians 5:21 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Galatians 5:19-21 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Romans 13:9 ESV / 1 helpful vote

For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

Romans 7:21 ESV / 1 helpful vote

So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand.

Romans 3:23 ESV / 1 helpful vote

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Romans 3:15 ESV / 1 helpful vote

“Their feet are swift to shed blood;

Romans 3:10 ESV / 1 helpful vote

As it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one;

Romans 1:30 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,

Romans 1:29-31 ESV / 1 helpful vote

They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless.

Romans 1:28 ESV / 1 helpful vote

And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done.

Romans 1:26-27 ESV / 1 helpful vote

For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.

Romans 1:26 ESV / 1 helpful vote

For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature;

Romans 1:25 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.

Romans 1:24 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves,

Romans 1:23 ESV / 1 helpful vote

And exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.

Romans 1:22 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Claiming to be wise, they became fools,

Romans 1:21 ESV / 1 helpful vote

For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.

Acts 2:38 ESV / 1 helpful vote

And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

John 14:30 ESV / 1 helpful vote

I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming. He has no claim on me,

John 3:19 ESV / 1 helpful vote

And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil.

John 3:16 ESV / 1 helpful vote

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

John 1:1-3 ESV / 1 helpful vote

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.

Mark 7:23 ESV / 1 helpful vote

All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.”

Mark 7:22 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness.

Mark 7:21-23 ESV / 1 helpful vote

For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.”

Mark 7:21 ESV / 1 helpful vote

For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,

Matthew 22:36-40 ESV / 1 helpful vote

“Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”

Matthew 15:9 ESV / 1 helpful vote

In vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’”

Matthew 4:10 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Then Jesus said to him, “Be gone, Satan! For it is written, “‘You shall worship the Lord your God and him only shall you serve.’”

Joel 2:28-29 ESV / 1 helpful vote

“And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions. Even on the male and female servants in those days I will pour out my Spirit.

Ezekiel 22:6-15 ESV / 1 helpful vote

“Behold, the princes of Israel in you, every one according to his power, have been bent on shedding blood. Father and mother are treated with contempt in you; the sojourner suffers extortion in your midst; the fatherless and the widow are wronged in you. You have despised my holy things and profaned my Sabbaths. There are men in you who slander to shed blood, and people in you who eat on the mountains; they commit lewdness in your midst. In you men uncover their fathers' nakedness; in you they violate women who are unclean in their menstrual impurity. ...

Ezekiel 18:31 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Cast away from you all the transgressions that you have committed, and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! Why will you die, O house of Israel?

Isaiah 45:7 ESV / 1 helpful vote

I form light and create darkness, I make well-being and create calamity, I am the Lord, who does all these things.

Isaiah 30:8-10 ESV / 1 helpful vote

And now, go, write it before them on a tablet and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come as a witness forever. For they are a rebellious people, lying children, children unwilling to hear the instruction of the Lord; who say to the seers, “Do not see,” and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us what is right; speak to us smooth things, prophesy illusions,

Isaiah 5:21 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and shrewd in their own sight!

Isaiah 3:16 ESV / 1 helpful vote

The Lord said: Because the daughters of Zion are haughty and walk with outstretched necks, glancing wantonly with their eyes, mincing along as they go, tinkling with their feet,

Isaiah 1:1-31 ESV / 1 helpful vote

The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the Lord has spoken: “Children have I reared and brought up, but they have rebelled against me. The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master's crib, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand.” Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken the Lord, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are utterly estranged. Why will you still be struck down? Why will you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. ...

Proverbs 25:27 ESV / 1 helpful vote

It is not good to eat much honey, nor is it glorious to seek one's own glory.

Proverbs 14:12 ESV / 1 helpful vote

There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death.

Psalm 58:3 ESV / 1 helpful vote

The wicked are estranged from the womb; they go astray from birth, speaking lies.

Psalm 33:14-15 ESV / 1 helpful vote

From where he sits enthroned he looks out on all the inhabitants of the earth, he who fashions the hearts of them all and observes all their deeds.

Psalm 10:13 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Why does the wicked renounce God and say in his heart, “You will not call to account”?

Psalm 10:11 ESV / 1 helpful vote

He says in his heart, “God has forgotten, he has hidden his face, he will never see it.”

Psalm 10:6 ESV / 1 helpful vote

He says in his heart, “I shall not be moved; throughout all generations I shall not meet adversity.”

Deuteronomy 30:19 ESV / 1 helpful vote

I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live,

Deuteronomy 5:29 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Oh that they had such a mind as this always, to fear me and to keep all my commandments, that it might go well with them and with their descendants forever!

Exodus 20:17 ESV / 1 helpful vote

“You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his male servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's.”

Exodus 20:16 ESV / 1 helpful vote

“You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

Exodus 20:15 ESV / 1 helpful vote

“You shall not steal.

Exodus 20:14 ESV / 1 helpful vote

“You shall not commit adultery.

Exodus 20:13 ESV / 1 helpful vote

“You shall not murder.

Exodus 20:8 ESV / 1 helpful vote

“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.

Exodus 20:4-5 ESV / 1 helpful vote

“You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me,

Exodus 15:26 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Saying, “If you will diligently listen to the voice of the Lord your God, and do that which is right in his eyes, and give ear to his commandments and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you that I put on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord, your healer.”

Genesis 11:6 ESV / 1 helpful vote

And the Lord said, “Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is only the beginning of what they will do. And nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them.

Genesis 11:1-4 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Now the whole earth had one language and the same words. And as people migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar. Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth.”

Genesis 10:25 ESV / 1 helpful vote

To Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided, and his brother's name was Joktan.

Bible Verses about God Made Us Perfect