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What Does the Bible Say About Perfection?

Here are 12 Bible verses about perfection, ordered by how relevant readers found them, with the King James Version and the modern Berean Standard Bible side by side.

  1. #1Ecclesiastes 7:20

    For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.

    BSBSurely there is no righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.

  2. #2Matthew 5:48

    Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

    BSBBe perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

  3. #3Philippians 3:12-15

    Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.

    BSBNot that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize of God’s heavenly calling in Christ Jesus. All of us who are mature should embrace this point of view. And if you think differently about some issue, God will reveal this to you as well.

  4. #4James 3:2

    For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.

    BSBWe all stumble in many ways. If anyone is never at fault in what he says, he is a perfect man, able to control his whole body.

  5. #5James 1:4

    But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.

    BSBAllow perseverance to finish its work, so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.

  6. #61 John 4:12

    No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.

    BSBNo one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God remains in us, and His love is perfected in us.

  7. #71 John 2:5

    But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.

    BSBBut if anyone keeps His word, the love of God has been truly perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him:

  8. #81 John 4:18

    There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.

    BSBThere is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear involves punishment. The one who fears has not been perfected in love.

  9. #9Hebrews 10:14

    For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.

    BSBbecause by a single offering He has made perfect for all time those who are being sanctified.

  10. #10Philippians 2:15

    That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;

    BSBso that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine as lights in the world

  11. #11James 1:25

    But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

    BSBBut the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom, and continues to do so—not being a forgetful hearer, but an effective doer—he will be blessed in what he does.

  12. #12Matthew 19:21

    Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me.

    BSBJesus told him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow Me.”

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