PERFECTION-IMPERFECTION

(A) PERFECTION

(1) Some Essential Elements of

Benevolence
Mt 19:21

Love
Col 3:14

Good Works
Jas 2:22

Control of the Tongue
Jas 3:2

Obedience
1Jo 2:5; 4:12

(2) The Duty of Striving after

Ge 17:1; De 18:13; 1Ki 8:61; Mt 5:48; 2Co 13:11
Eph 4:13; Php 3:15; Col 1:28; 2Ti 3:17; Heb 6:1; 13:21
Jas 1:4; 1Pe 5:10

--SEE Spiritual Growth, DEVELOPMENT

(B) PERFECTION DIVINE, of God

De 32:4; 2Sa 22:31; Ps 18:30; Ec 3:14; Mt 5:48

--SEE God's Holiness, HOLINESS
God's Righteousness, RIGHTEOUSNESS
God of Truth, TRUTH
Divine Excellencies, EXCELLENCIES, DIVINE

(C) CHRIST'S PERFECTION

Joh 1:14; 19:4; Heb 2:10; 5:9; 7:28

--SEE Fulness of Christ, FULNESS

(D) CHRIST'S SINLESSNESS, general references to

Isa 53:9; Lu 23:41; Joh 8:46; 2Co 5:21; Heb 1:9; 4:15
Heb 7:26; 9:14; 1Pe 1:19; 2:22; 1Jo 3:5

--SEE Righteousness (2) RIGHTEOUSNESS

(E) IMPERFECTION, HUMAN

(1) General References to

Job 9:20; Ec 7:20; Php 3:12; Jas 3:2; Re 3:2

--SEE Unbelief (1), UNBELIEF
Sin, SIN
Half-heartedness, INDIFFERENCE

(2) Exemplified in the Lives of the Best Men

Ge 20:2; Nu 20:12; 1Ki 3:3; 22:43; 2Ch 16:12; Jon 1:3
Lu 9:54; 22:24; Ga 2:13

--SEE Deception, FALSEHOOD
Sin Universal, SIN

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