PERFECTION-IMPERFECTION

(A) PERFECTION
(1) Some Essential Elements of
Benevolence

Mat 19:21

Love

Col 3:14

Good Works

Jam 2:22

Control of the Tongue

Jam 3:2

Obedience

1Jo 2:5; 1Jo 4:12

(2) The Duty of Striving after

Gen 17:1; Deu 18:13; 1Ki 8:61; Mat 5:48; 2Co 13:11

Eph 4:13; Phi 3:15; Col 1:28; 2Ti 3:17; Heb 6:1; Heb 13:21

Jam 1:4; 1Pe 5:10

–SEE Spiritual Growth, DEVELOPMENT

(B) PERFECTION DIVINE, of God

Deu 32:4; 2Sa 22:31; Psa 18:30; Ecc 3:14; Mat 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; Joh 19:4; Heb 2:10; Heb 5:9; Heb 7:28

–SEE Fulness of Christ, FULNESS

(D) CHRIST’S SINLESSNESS, general references to

Isa 53:9; Luk 23:41; Joh 8:46; 2Co 5:21; Heb 1:9; Heb 4:15

Heb 7:26; Heb 9:14; 1Pe 1:19; 1Pe 2:22; 1Jo 3:5

–SEE Righteousness (2) RIGHTEOUSNESS

(E) IMPERFECTION, HUMAN
(1) General References to

Job 9:20; Ecc 7:20; Phi 3:12; Jam 3:2; Rev 3:2

–SEE Unbelief (1), UNBELIEF

Sin, SIN
Half-heartedness, INDIFFERENCE

(2) Exemplified in the Lives of the Best Men

Gen 20:2; Num 20:12; 1Ki 3:3; 1Ki 22:43; 2Ch 16:12; Jon 1:3

Luk 9:54; Luk 22:24; Gal 2:13

–SEE Deception, FALSEHOOD

Sin Universal, SIN