Let those of us who are mature think this way, and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal that also to you.
If anyone's will is to do God's will, he will know whether the teaching is from God or whether I am speaking on my own authority.
And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.
I have confidence in the Lord that you will take no other view, and the one who is troubling you will bear the penalty, whoever he is.
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.
yes, if you call out for insight and raise your voice for understanding, if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures, then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God. For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;
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.
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.
Brothers, do not be children in your thinking. Be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.
You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
And a highway shall be there, and it shall be called the Way of Holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it. It shall belong to those who walk on the way; even if they are fools, they shall not go astray.
But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.
Him we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom, that we may present everyone mature in Christ.
We who are strong have an obligation to bear with the failings of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.
Good and upright is the Lord; therefore he instructs sinners in the way. He leads the humble in what is right, and teaches the humble his way.
but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him:
that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.
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