Bible verses about Spiritual Maturity
Verses that encourage believers to grow beyond the basics of the faith.
For everyone who lives on milk is still an infant, inexperienced in the message of righteousness.
Hebrews 5:13But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained their senses to distinguish good from evil.
Hebrews 5:14Brothers, stop thinking like children. In regard to evil be infants, but in your thinking be mature.
1 Corinthians 14:20until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God, as we mature to the full measure of the stature of Christ.
Ephesians 4:13Then we will no longer be infants, tossed about by the waves and carried around by every wind of teaching and by the clever cunning of men in their deceitful scheming.
Ephesians 4:14Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into Christ Himself, who is the head.
Ephesians 4:15Not 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.
Philippians 3:12Brothers, 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,
Philippians 3:13I press on toward the goal to win the prize of God’s heavenly calling in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 3:14All 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.
Philippians 3:15We proclaim Him, admonishing and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone perfect in Christ.
Colossians 1:28But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.
2 Peter 3:18Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation,
1 Peter 2:2Allow perseverance to finish its work, so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.
James 1:4When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I set aside childish ways.
1 Corinthians 13:11The path of the righteous is like the first gleam of dawn, shining brighter and brighter until midday.
Proverbs 4:18The righteous will flourish like a palm tree, and grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
Psalms 92:12Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
Matthew 5:48