What Does the Bible Say About Mature?

James 1:22 ESV / 14 helpful votes

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

1 Corinthians 13:11 ESV / 14 helpful votes

When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways.

James 1:5 ESV / 8 helpful votes

If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.

2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 8 helpful votes

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.

Colossians 1:28 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Him we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom, that we may present everyone mature in Christ.

1 Corinthians 14:20 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Brothers, do not be children in your thinking. Be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.

1 John 4:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 6 helpful votes

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

1 Thessalonians 5:19 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Do not quench the Spirit.

Philippians 3:15 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Let those of us who are mature think this way, and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal that also to you.

1 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.

Philippians 3:13-16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Let those of us who are mature think this way, and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal that also to you. Only let us hold true to what we have attained.

Ephesians 4:11-13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,

Galatians 5:19-21 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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.

1 Corinthians 14:33 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For God is not a God of confusion but of peace. As in all the churches of the saints,

Romans 10:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes

So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.

Romans 6:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

John 14:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

John 3:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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

Psalm 119:1-176 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the Lord! Blessed are those who keep his testimonies, who seek him with their whole heart, who also do no wrong, but walk in his ways! You have commanded your precepts to be kept diligently. Oh that my ways may be steadfast in keeping your statutes! ...

Deuteronomy 6:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.

1 Peter 3:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect,

Hebrews 6:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

So that by two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us.

1 Thessalonians 2:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And we also thank God constantly for this, that when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you believers.

Matthew 22:37 ESV / 3 helpful votes

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.

Matthew 5:29-30 ESV / 3 helpful votes

If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell. And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body go into hell.

Amos 3:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“For the Lord God does nothing without revealing his secret to his servants the prophets.

2 Peter 3:15-16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And count the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given him, as he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters. There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures.

John 8:1-59 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. Early in the morning he came again to the temple. All the people came to him, and he sat down and taught them. The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery, and placing her in the midst they said to him, “Teacher, this woman has been caught in the act of adultery. Now in the Law, Moses commanded us to stone such women. So what do you say?” ...

Joshua 24:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”

Romans 3:23 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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

Malachi 3:1-18 ESV / 1 helpful vote

“Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me. And the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant in whom you delight, behold, he is coming, says the Lord of hosts. But who can endure the day of his coming, and who can stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner's fire and like fullers' soap. He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, and they will bring offerings in righteousness to the Lord. Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasing to the Lord as in the days of old and as in former years. “Then I will draw near to you for judgment. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hired worker in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, against those who thrust aside the sojourner, and do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts. ...

Psalm 139:13-16 ESV / 1 helpful vote

For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.

33 Bible Verses about Mature

James 1:22 ESV / 14 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:11 ESV / 14 helpful votes

James 1:5 ESV / 8 helpful votes

2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Colossians 1:28 ESV / 8 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 14:20 ESV / 7 helpful votes

1 John 4:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 6 helpful votes

1 Thessalonians 5:19 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Philippians 3:15 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Philippians 3:13-16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Ephesians 4:11-13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Galatians 5:19-21 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 14:33 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Romans 10:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Romans 6:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

John 14:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Psalm 119:1-176 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 6:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Hebrews 6:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Thessalonians 2:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 22:37 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 5:29-30 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Amos 3:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

2 Peter 3:15-16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 8:1-59 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Joshua 24:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 3:23 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Malachi 3:1-18 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Psalm 139:13-16 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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33 Bible Verses about Mature

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James 1:22 ESV / 14 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:11 ESV / 14 helpful votes

James 1:5 ESV / 8 helpful votes

2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Colossians 1:28 ESV / 8 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 14:20 ESV / 7 helpful votes

1 John 4:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 6 helpful votes

1 Thessalonians 5:19 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Philippians 3:15 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Philippians 3:13-16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Ephesians 4:11-13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Galatians 5:19-21 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 14:33 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Romans 10:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Romans 6:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

John 14:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Psalm 119:1-176 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 6:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Hebrews 6:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Thessalonians 2:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 22:37 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 5:29-30 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Amos 3:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

2 Peter 3:15-16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 8:1-59 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Joshua 24:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 3:23 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Malachi 3:1-18 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Psalm 139:13-16 ESV / 1 helpful vote