Proverbs 4:8

8Prize her highly, and she will exalt you;
she will ahonor you bif you embrace her.

Matthew 5:48

48 cYou therefore must be dperfect, eas your heavenly Father is perfect.

John 17:23

23 fI in them and you in me, gthat they may become perfectly one, hso that the world may know that you sent me and iloved them even as jyou loved me.

1 Corinthians 2:6

Wisdom from the Spirit

6Yet among kthe mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not la wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, mwho are doomed to pass away.

Philippians 3:12-15

Straining Toward the Goal

12Not that I have already nobtained this or oam already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. 13Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: pforgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, 14I press on toward the goal for qthe prize of the upward rcall of God in Christ Jesus. 15Let those of us who are smature think this way, and if in anything tyou think otherwise, uGod will reveal that also to you.

Colossians 4:12

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

James 3:2

2For ywe all stumble in many ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, zhe is a perfect man, aaable also to bridle his whole body.
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