PERFECTION-IMPERFECTION

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