18 Bible Verses about Spiritual Maturity

Brethren, do not be children in mind; yet in evil be babes, but in mind be full-grown.

For our citizenship is in Heaven, whence also we are waiting for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ; Who will transform the body of our humiliation into conformity to the body of His glory, according to the working whereby He is able also to subject all things to Himself.

Wherefore, leaving the word of the beginning of Christ, let us press on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God, of the teaching of immersions, and laying on of hands, of a resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment. And this will we do, if, indeed, God permit.

When I was a child, I was wont to talk as a child, to think as a child, to reason as a child; since I have become a man, I have done away with the things of the child;

until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the full knowledge of the Son of God, to a full-grown man??o the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ;

but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him, Who is the Head, Christ;

but solid food is for full-grown men, who by practice have their senses trained for the discernment both of good and evil.

I wrote to you, fathers, because ye have known Him Who is from the beginning. I wrote to you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and ye have conquered the evil one.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith, meekness, continence; against such there is no law.

For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, cease not praying for you, and asking that ye may be filled with the full knowledge of His will, in all wisdom and spiritual understanding, to walk worthily of the Lord to all pleasing, bearing fruit in every good work, and growing in the knowledge of God;

until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the full knowledge of the Son of God, to a full-grown man??o the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ; that we may no longer be babes, billow-tossed, and carried about with every wind of teaching, in the sleight of men, in the craftiness suited to the artifice of error; but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him, Who is the Head, Christ;

But ye did not so learn Christ; if, indeed, ye heard Him, and were taught in Him, as truth is in Jesus; that ye put off, as to your former manner of life, the old man, who is corrupt according to the desires of deceit;read more.
and that ye be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and put on the new man, who after God was created in righteousness and holiness of the truth.

As, therefore, ye received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in Him; having been rooted and being built up in Him, and being established in the faith as ye were taught, abounding with thanksgiving.

Lie not one to another, having put off the old man with his practices, and having put on the new man who is being renewed unto full knowledge, according to the image of Him Who created him;

For even when, on account of the time, ye ought to be teachers, ye again have need that some one teach you the first elements of the oracles of God, and have become such as have need of milk, and not of solid food; for every one who partakes of milk is inexperienced in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe; but solid food is for full-grown men, who by practice have their senses trained for the discernment both of good and evil.

Wherefore, leaving the word of the beginning of Christ, let us press on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God, of the teaching of immersions, and laying on of hands, of a resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.

Having, therefore, put away all wickedness, and all guile, and hypocrisy, and envies, and all evil speakings, as new-born babes, long ye for the spiritual, unadulterated milk, that thereby ye may grow unto salvation, if ye tasted that the Lord is gracious;

Ye, therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand, be on your guard, lest, being carried away with error of the wicked, ye fall from your own steadfastness. But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and forever.