What Does the Bible Say About Emotional Maturity?

Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 11 helpful votes

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

1 Peter 2:2 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation—

James 3:1-18 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness. For we all stumble in many ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body. If we put bits into the mouths of horses so that they obey us, we guide their whole bodies as well. Look at the ships also: though they are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are guided by a very small rudder wherever the will of the pilot directs. So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great things. How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire! ...

Proverbs 15:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes

A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

Matthew 23:37 ESV / 5 helpful votes

“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing!

1 John 4:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; ...

John 17:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.

Proverbs 18:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The one who states his case first seems right, until the other comes and examines him.

Proverbs 15:22 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Without counsel plans fail, but with many advisers they succeed.

1 John 4:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.

Acts 5:32 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And we are witnesses to these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him.”

John 3:16 ESV / 3 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.

1 Thessalonians 5:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Do not quench the Spirit.

Ephesians 4:30 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

Acts 2:38 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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 14:6 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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

Luke 22:44 ESV / 1 helpful vote

And being in agony he prayed more earnestly; and his sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground.

Isaiah 28:9-10 ESV / 1 helpful vote

“To whom will he teach knowledge, and to whom will he explain the message? Those who are weaned from the milk, those taken from the breast? For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little.”

20 Bible Verses about Emotional Maturity

Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 11 helpful votes

1 Peter 2:2 ESV / 7 helpful votes

James 3:1-18 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Proverbs 15:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Matthew 23:37 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 John 4:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

John 17:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 18:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 15:22 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 John 4:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Acts 5:32 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Thessalonians 5:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 4:30 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 2:38 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 14:6 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Luke 22:44 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Isaiah 28:9-10 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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20 Bible Verses about Emotional Maturity

Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Peter 2:2 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

James 3:1-18 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 11 helpful votes

1 Peter 2:2 ESV / 7 helpful votes

James 3:1-18 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Proverbs 15:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Matthew 23:37 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 John 4:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

John 17:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 18:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 15:22 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 John 4:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Acts 5:32 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Thessalonians 5:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 4:30 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 2:38 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 14:6 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Luke 22:44 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Isaiah 28:9-10 ESV / 1 helpful vote