Biblical Concept: Perfect
Vocabulary
Teleios (te,leioj) – “having attained the end or purpose, complete,
perfect.”
Prologue
Perfect? Heady subject …
Humans, perfect, oxymoron …
Findings
Perfect offering.
God: “His work is perfect.”
“The law of the LORD is perfect.”
God: “Plans formed long ago, with
perfect faithfulness.”
Lucifer: “perfect in beauty.”
Lucifer: “seal of perfection.”
Elihu to Job re God: “one perfect in knowledge.”
God’s perfect plan for Israel.
Perfect not religious.
Not conformed, transformed, renewing mind, perfect, relationship.
perfect heart
Perfect and attitude of improvement relationship.
“love, which is the perfect bond of unity”
“you may stand perfect and fully assured in all the will of God”
Of Paul: “Jesus Christ might demonstrate His perfect patience.”
“to perfect the author of their salvation through sufferings”
Christ, perfect, relationship.
Christ, high priest, perfect tabernacle, relationship.
Law, never make perfect.
“for the Law made nothing perfect”
Endurance, perfect, relationship.
“every perfect gift is from above”
“the perfect law, the law of
liberty”
Speech, perfection, relationship.
Suffering, perfect relationship.
“perfected in unity”
Perfect, spiritual maturity, relationship.
Paul’s life: “power is perfected in weakness.”
“love is perfected with us”
“perfect love casts out fear”
“Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith”
“perfecting holiness in the fear of God”
Paul: “perfectly good conscience before God.”
Heaven: “spirits of righteous men made perfect.”
NAS Isaiah 26:3 "The steadfast of mind Thou wilt keep in
perfect peace, Because he trusts in Thee.
NAS 1 John 2:5 but whoever keeps His word, in him the love of
God has truly been perfected. By this we
know that we are in Him:
NAS 1 John 4:12 No one has beheld God at any time; if we love one
another, God abides in us, and His
love is perfected in us.
NAS Hebrews 12:2 fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and
perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before
Him endured the cross, despising
the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
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Perfect
NAS Leviticus 22:21 'And when a man offers a sacrifice of peace
offerings to the LORD to fulfill a special vow, or for a freewill offering, of
the herd or of the flock, it must be perfect to be accepted; there shall be no
defect in it. (Perfect offering.)
4 "The Rock! His
work is perfect, For all His ways are just; A God of faithfulness and without
injustice, Righteous and upright is He. (God: “His work is perfect.”)
NAS 1 Samuel 14:41 Therefore, Saul said to the LORD, the God of
Israel, "Give a perfect lot."
And Jonathan and Saul were taken, but the people escaped.
NAS 1 Chronicles 12:38 All these, being men of war, who could draw up in
battle formation, came to Hebron with a perfect heart, to make David king over
all Israel; and all the rest also of Israel were of one mind to make David
king. (“perfect heart”)
NAS 1 Chronicles 29:19 "and give to my son Solomon a perfect heart
to keep Thy commandments, Thy testimonies, and Thy statutes, and to do them all, and to build the temple, for
which I have made provision." (“perfect heart”)
NAS Ezra 7:12 "Artaxerxes, king of kings, to Ezra the
priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, perfect peace. And now
NAS Job 22:3 "Is there any pleasure to the Almighty if
you are righteous, Or profit if you make your ways perfect?
NAS Job 36:4 "For truly my words are not false; One who
is perfect in knowledge is with you.
NAS Job 37:16 "Do you know about the layers of the thick
clouds, The wonders of one perfect in knowledge, (Elihu to Job re God: “one
perfect in knowledge.”)
NAS Psalm 19:7 The law of the LORD is perfect, restoring the
soul; The testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple. (“The law of
the LORD is perfect.”)
NAS Song of Solomon 5:2 "I was asleep, but my heart was awake. A
voice! My beloved was knocking: 'Open to me, my sister, my darling, My dove, my
perfect one! For my head is drenched with dew, My locks with the damp of the
night.'
NAS Song of Solomon 6:9 But my
dove, my perfect one, is unique: She is her mother's only daughter; She is the pure child
of the one who bore her. The maidens saw her and called her blessed, The
queens and the concubines also, and
they praised her, saying,
NAS Isaiah 25:1 O lord, Thou art my God; I will exalt Thee, I
will give thanks to Thy name; For Thou hast worked wonders, Plans formed long ago, with perfect
faithfulness. (God: “Plans formed long
ago, with perfect faithfulness.”)
NAS Isaiah 26:3 "The steadfast of mind Thou wilt keep in
perfect peace, Because he trusts in Thee. (All)
NAS Ezekiel 16:14 "Then your fame went forth among the nations
on account of your beauty, for it was perfect because of My splendor which I
bestowed on you," declares the Lord God. (God’s perfect plan for Israel.)
NAS Ezekiel 27:3 and say to Tyre, who dwells at the entrance to
the sea, merchant of the peoples to many coastlands, 'Thus says the Lord God,
"O Tyre, you have said, 'I am perfect in beauty.'
NAS Ezekiel 28:12 "Son of man, take up a lamentation over the
king of Tyre, and say to him, 'Thus says the Lord God, "You had the seal
of perfection, Full of wisdom and perfect in beauty. (Lucifer: “seal of
perfection.”) (Lucifer: “perfect in beauty.”)
NAS Ezekiel 40:47 And he measured the court, a perfect square, a hundred cubits long and a hundred cubits wide;
and the altar was in front of the temple.
NAS Matthew 5:48 "Therefore you are to be perfect, as your
heavenly Father is perfect. (Perfect not religious.)
NAS Acts 3:16 "And on the basis of faith in His name, it is the name of Jesus which has
strengthened this man whom you see and know; and the faith which comes through Him has given him this
perfect health in the presence of you all.
NAS Romans 12:2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be
transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what the will of
God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect. (Not conformed,
transformed, renewing mind, perfect, relationship.) (Greek text reads: and not ‘receive
conformity’ / ‘conform yourself’ to this age but receive transformation by the
renewing of the ‘mind’ / ‘thinking’ unto the you-all continual examination what
(is) the will of the God)
NAS 1 Corinthians 13:10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will be
done away. (Perfect, spiritual maturity, relationship.) (See the context of
13:8-13.)
NAS Philippians 1:6 For I am confident
of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until
the day of Christ Jesus. (Compare perfect with the context of 1:9-11)
(Perfect, spiritual maturity, relationship.) (Perfect and attitude of
improvement relationship.)
NAS Philippians 3:12 Not that I have already obtained it, or have already become perfect, but
I press on in order that I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold
of by Christ Jesus. (Perfect and attitude of improvement relationship.)
15 Let us therefore, as
many as are perfect, have this attitude; and if in anything you have a
different attitude, God will reveal that also to you; (Perfect and attitude of
improvement relationship.)
NAS Colossians 3:14 And beyond all these things put on love, which is the perfect bond of unity. (“love, which is
the perfect bond of unity”)
NAS Colossians 4:12 Epaphras, who is one of your number, a bondslave
of Jesus Christ, sends you his greetings, always laboring earnestly for you in
his prayers, that you may stand perfect and fully assured in all the will of
God. (“you may stand perfect and fully assured in all the will of God”)
NAS 1 Timothy 1:16 And yet for this reason I found mercy, in order
that in me as the foremost, Jesus Christ might demonstrate His perfect
patience, as an example for those who would believe in Him for eternal life. (Of
Paul: “Jesus Christ might demonstrate His perfect patience.”)
NAS Hebrews 2:10 For it was fitting for Him, for whom are all
things, and through whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to
perfect the author of their salvation through sufferings. (“to perfect the
author of their salvation through sufferings”)
NAS Hebrews 5:9 And having been made perfect, He became to all
those who obey Him the source of eternal salvation, (Christ, perfect, relationship.)
NAS Hebrews 7:19 (for the Law made nothing perfect), and on the
other hand there is a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near
to God. (“for the Law made nothing perfect”)
28 For the Law appoints
men as high priests who are weak, but the word of the oath, which came after
the Law, appoints a Son, made perfect
forever. (Christ, perfect, relationship.)
NAS Hebrews 9:9 which is a
symbol for the present time. Accordingly both gifts and sacrifices are offered
which cannot make the worshiper perfect in conscience, (See verse 11 below.)
11 But when Christ
appeared as a high priest of the good
things to come, He entered through
the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say,
not of this creation; (Christ, high priest, perfect tabernacle, relationship.)
NAS Hebrews 10:1 For the Law, since it has only a shadow of the good things to come and not the very form of things, can never by the same sacrifices
year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near.
(Law, never make perfect.)
NAS Hebrews 11:40 because God had provided something better for us,
so that apart from us they should not be made perfect.
NAS Hebrews 12:23 to the general assembly and church of the
first-born who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the Judge of all, and to the
spirits of righteous men made perfect, (Heaven: “spirits of righteous men made
perfect.”)
NAS James 1:4 And let endurance have its perfect result, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking
in nothing. (Endurance, perfect, relationship.)
17 Every good thing
bestowed and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of
lights, with whom there is no variation, or shifting shadow. (“every perfect
gift is from above”)
25 But one who looks
intently at the perfect law, the law of
liberty, and abides by it, not having become a forgetful hearer but an
effectual doer, this man shall be blessed in what he does. (“the perfect law,
the law of liberty”)
NAS James 3:2 For we all stumble in many ways. If anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect
man, able to bridle the whole body as well. (Speech, perfection, relationship.)
NAS 1 Peter 5:10 And after you have suffered for a little while,
the God of all grace, who called you to His eternal glory in Christ, will
Himself perfect, confirm, strengthen and establish
you. (Suffering, perfect relationship.)
NAS 1 John 4:18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts
out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears is not
perfected in love. (“perfect love casts out fear”)
Perfected
NAS Ezekiel 27:4 "Your borders are in the heart of the seas;
Your builders have perfected your beauty.
11 "The sons of
Arvad and your army were on your walls, all
around, and the Gammadim were in your towers. They hung their shields on
your walls, all around; they
perfected your beauty.
NAS John 17:23 I in them, and Thou in Me, that they may be
perfected in unity, that the world may know that Thou didst send Me, and didst
love them, even as Thou didst love Me. (“perfected in unity”)
NAS 2 Corinthians 12:9 And He has said to me, "My grace is
sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness." Most gladly,
therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, that the power of Christ
may dwell in me. (Paul’s life: “power is perfected in weakness.”)
NAS Galatians 3:3 Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit,
are you now being perfected by the flesh?
NAS Hebrews 10:14 For by one offering He has perfected for all time
those who are sanctified. (Christ, perfect, relationship.)
NAS James 2:22 You see that faith was working with his works,
and as a result of the works, faith was perfected; (All)
NAS 1 John 2:5 but whoever keeps His word, in him the love of
God has truly been perfected. By this we know that we are in Him: (All)
NAS 1 John 4:12 No one has beheld God at any time; if we love one
another, God abides in us, and His love is perfected in us. (All)
17 By this, love is
perfected with us, that we may have confidence in the day of judgment; because
as He is, so also are we in this world. (“love is perfected with us”)
18 There is no fear in
love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment, and
the one who fears is not perfected in love. (“perfect love casts out fear”)
Perfecter
NAS Hebrews 12:2 fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and
perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising
the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. (All)
(“Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith”)
Perfecting
NAS 2 Corinthians 7:1 Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us
cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness
in the fear of God. (“perfecting holiness in the fear of God”)
Perfection
NAS Psalm 50:2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God has
shone forth.
NAS Psalm 119:96 I have seen a limit to all perfection; Thy
commandment is exceedingly broad.
NAS Lamentations 2:15 All who pass along the way Clap their hands in derision at you; They hiss and shake
their heads At the daughter of Jerusalem, "Is this the city of which they
said, 'The perfection of beauty, A joy to all the earth '?"
NAS Ezekiel 28:12 "Son of man, take up a lamentation over the
king of Tyre, and say to him, 'Thus says the Lord God, "You had the seal
of perfection, Full of wisdom and perfect in beauty. (Lucifer: “seal of
perfection.”) (Lucifer: “perfect in beauty.”)
NAS Hebrews 7:11 Now if perfection was through the Levitical
priesthood (for on the basis of it the people received the Law), what further
need was there for another priest to
arise according to the order of Melchizedek, and not be designated according to
the order of Aaron? (Law, never make perfect.)
Perfectly
NAS Matthew 8:26 And He said to them, "Why are you timid, you
men of little faith?" Then He arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea;
and it became perfectly calm.
NAS Mark 4:39 And being aroused, He rebuked the wind and said
to the sea, "Hush, be still." And the wind died down and it became
perfectly calm.
NAS Acts 23:1 And Paul, looking intently at the Council, said,
"Brethren, I have lived my life with a perfectly good conscience before
God up to this day." (Paul: “perfectly good conscience before God.”)