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100 Bible Verses about Perfection

Ecclesiastes 7:20 ESV / 314 helpful votes

Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.

Matthew 5:48 ESV / 305 helpful votes

You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

Philippians 3:12-15 ESV / 203 helpful votes

Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. 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.

James 3:2 ESV / 157 helpful votes

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.

James 1:4 ESV / 152 helpful votes

And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

1 John 4:12 ESV / 105 helpful votes

No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.

1 John 2:5 ESV / 104 helpful votes

But whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him:

1 John 4:18 ESV / 101 helpful votes

There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.

Hebrews 10:14 ESV / 87 helpful votes

For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified.

Philippians 2:15 ESV / 85 helpful votes

That you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world,

James 1:25 ESV / 79 helpful votes

But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.

Matthew 19:21 ESV / 76 helpful votes

Jesus said to him, “If you would be perfect, go, sell what you possess and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”

1 John 5:18 ESV / 67 helpful votes

We know that everyone who has been born of God does not keep on sinning, but he who was born of God protects him, and the evil one does not touch him.

2 Corinthians 7:1 ESV / 61 helpful votes

Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, bringing holiness to completion in the fear of God.

Colossians 3:14 ESV / 59 helpful votes

And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.

Psalm 18:30 ESV / 55 helpful votes

This God—his way is perfect; the word of the Lord proves true; he is a shield for all those who take refuge in him.

Hebrews 6:1 ESV / 52 helpful votes

Therefore let us leave the elementary doctrine of Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God,

2 Corinthians 13:11 ESV / 45 helpful votes

Finally, brothers, rejoice. Aim for restoration, comfort one another, agree with one another, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.

Matthew 5:6 ESV / 43 helpful votes

“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.

Psalm 119:96 ESV / 43 helpful votes

I have seen a limit to all perfection, but your commandment is exceedingly broad.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 42 helpful votes

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Psalm 19:7 ESV / 38 helpful votes

The law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple;

Colossians 1:22 ESV / 37 helpful votes

He has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him,

Psalm 37:31 ESV / 37 helpful votes

The law of his God is in his heart; his steps do not slip.

Ephesians 4:13 ESV / 34 helpful votes

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,

Romans 5:8 ESV / 34 helpful votes

But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Psalm 37:37 ESV / 34 helpful votes

Mark the blameless and behold the upright, for there is a future for the man of peace.

Matthew 7:1-2 ESV / 33 helpful votes

“Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you.

Psalm 138:8 ESV / 33 helpful votes

The Lord will fulfill his purpose for me; your steadfast love, O Lord, endures forever. Do not forsake the work of your hands.

1 Peter 5:10 ESV / 31 helpful votes

And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you.

2 Timothy 3:17 ESV / 31 helpful votes

That the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.

2 Corinthians 12:9 ESV / 31 helpful votes

But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

Colossians 4:12 ESV / 30 helpful votes

Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, greets you, always struggling on your behalf in his prayers, that you may stand mature and fully assured in all the will of God.

Romans 3:23 ESV / 30 helpful votes

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

2 Corinthians 13:9 ESV / 29 helpful votes

For we are glad when we are weak and you are strong. Your restoration is what we pray for.

1 Corinthians 2:6 ESV / 29 helpful votes

Yet among the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away.

Luke 6:40 ESV / 29 helpful votes

A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone when he is fully trained will be like his teacher.

Psalm 119:1-3 ESV / 29 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!

Philippians 3:12 ESV / 28 helpful votes

Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own.

Hebrews 2:10 ESV / 27 helpful votes

For it was fitting that he, for whom and by whom all things exist, in bringing many sons to glory, should make the founder of their salvation perfect through suffering.

Romans 7:18 ESV / 27 helpful votes

For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out.

Psalm 18:32 ESV / 27 helpful votes

The God who equipped me with strength and made my way blameless.

Genesis 17:1 ESV / 27 helpful votes

When Abram was ninety-nine years old the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless,

Job 1:1 ESV / 26 helpful votes

There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job, and that man was blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil.

2 Samuel 22:31 ESV / 26 helpful votes

This God—his way is perfect; the word of the Lord proves true; he is a shield for all those who take refuge in him.

1 Thessalonians 3:13 ESV / 25 helpful votes

So that he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

Colossians 1:28 ESV / 25 helpful votes

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

Philippians 1:6 ESV / 25 helpful votes

And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.

1 John 3:6 ESV / 24 helpful votes

No one who abides in him keeps on sinning; no one who keeps on sinning has either seen him or known him.

James 1:17 ESV / 23 helpful votes

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.

Hebrews 13:20-21 ESV / 23 helpful votes

Now may the God of peace who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant, equip you with everything good that you may do his will, working in us that which is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.

Luke 1:6 ESV / 23 helpful votes

And they were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and statutes of the Lord.

1 Peter 1:15-16 ESV / 22 helpful votes

But as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”

Genesis 6:9 ESV / 22 helpful votes

These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation. Noah walked with God.

1 John 1:9 ESV / 21 helpful votes

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

Revelation 21:4 ESV / 20 helpful votes

He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”

Colossians 2:9-11 ESV / 20 helpful votes

For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily, and you have been filled in him, who is the head of all rule and authority. In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ,

Philippians 3:15 ESV / 20 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.

Ephesians 5:1 ESV / 20 helpful votes

Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children.

John 1:47 ESV / 20 helpful votes

Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him and said of him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no deceit!”

Deuteronomy 32:4 ESV / 20 helpful votes

“The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice. A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and upright is he.

1 John 2:1 ESV / 19 helpful votes

My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.

Matthew 6:33 ESV / 19 helpful votes

But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

Proverbs 2:21 ESV / 19 helpful votes

For the upright will inhabit the land, and those with integrity will remain in it,

Hebrews 13:20 ESV / 18 helpful votes

Now may the God of peace who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant,

Hebrews 5:9 ESV / 18 helpful votes

And being made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him,

2 Timothy 2:1 ESV / 18 helpful votes

You then, my child, be strengthened by the grace that is in Christ Jesus,

Philippians 1:10 ESV / 18 helpful votes

So that you may approve what is excellent, and so be pure and blameless for the day of Christ,

John 3:16 ESV / 18 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.

Joshua 23:6 ESV / 18 helpful votes

Therefore, be very strong to keep and to do all that is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, turning aside from it neither to the right hand nor to the left,

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 17 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

Galatians 2:20 ESV / 17 helpful votes

I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Matthew 7:6-7 ESV / 17 helpful votes

“Do not give dogs what is holy, and do not throw your pearls before pigs, lest they trample them underfoot and turn to attack you. “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.

Ezekiel 18:4 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Behold, all souls are mine; the soul of the father as well as the soul of the son is mine: the soul who sins shall die.

Genesis 6:8 ESV / 17 helpful votes

But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord.

Hebrews 13:21 ESV / 16 helpful votes

Equip you with everything good that you may do his will, working in us that which is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.

Hebrews 7:11 ESV / 16 helpful votes

Now if perfection had been attainable through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people received the law), what further need would there have been for another priest to arise after the order of Melchizedek, rather than one named after the order of Aaron?

John 3:16-17 ESV / 16 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. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Psalm 106:3 ESV / 16 helpful votes

Blessed are they who observe justice, who do righteousness at all times!

Numbers 23:21 ESV / 16 helpful votes

He has not beheld misfortune in Jacob, nor has he seen trouble in Israel. The Lord their God is with them, and the shout of a king is among them.

Hebrews 12:23 ESV / 15 helpful votes

And to the assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect,

Romans 12:1-2 ESV / 15 helpful votes

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Isaiah 26:3 ESV / 15 helpful votes

You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you.

1 John 3:9 ESV / 14 helpful votes

No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God's seed abides in him; and he cannot keep on sinning, because he has been born of God.

Colossians 1:21 ESV / 14 helpful votes

And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds,

1 Kings 15:14 ESV / 14 helpful votes

But the high places were not taken away. Nevertheless, the heart of Asa was wholly true to the Lord all his days.

1 Kings 8:61 ESV / 14 helpful votes

Let your heart therefore be wholly true to the Lord our God, walking in his statutes and keeping his commandments, as at this day.”

1 John 2:4 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him,

1 John 1:8 ESV / 13 helpful votes

If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 13 helpful votes

The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.

2 Timothy 2:19 ESV / 13 helpful votes

But God's firm foundation stands, bearing this seal: “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let everyone who names the name of the Lord depart from iniquity.”

Ephesians 4:11-13 ESV / 13 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,

Matthew 11:28 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

Isaiah 40:31 ESV / 13 helpful votes

But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.

Psalm 119:6 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Then I shall not be put to shame, having my eyes fixed on all your commandments.

Job 9:21 ESV / 13 helpful votes

I am blameless; I regard not myself; I loathe my life.

Job 9:20 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Though I am in the right, my own mouth would condemn me; though I am blameless, he would prove me perverse.

1 Chronicles 29:19 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Grant to Solomon my son a whole heart that he may keep your commandments, your testimonies, and your statutes, performing all, and that he may build the palace for which I have made provision.”

2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 12 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.

1 Chronicles 28:9 ESV / 12 helpful votes

“And you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve him with a whole heart and with a willing mind, for the Lord searches all hearts and understands every plan and thought. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

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