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being confident of this, that He who began a good work in you will continue to perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.

We proclaim Him, admonishing and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone perfect in Christ.

And over all these virtues put on love, which is the bond of perfect unity.

But for this very reason I was shown mercy, so that in me, the worst of sinners, Christ Jesus might display His perfect patience as an example to those who would believe in Him for eternal life.

In bringing many sons to glory, it was fitting for God, for whom and through whom all things exist, to make the author of their salvation perfect through suffering.

And having been made perfect, He became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey Him

(for the law made nothing perfect), and a better hope is introduced, by which we draw near to God.

For the law appoints as high priests men who are weak; but the oath, which came after the law, appointed the Son, who has been made perfect forever.

But when Christ came as high priest of the good things that have come, He went through the greater and more perfect tabernacle that is not made by hands and is not of this creation.

For the law is only a shadow of the good things to come, not the realities themselves. It can never, by the same sacrifices offered year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship.

because by a single offering He has made perfect for all time those who are being sanctified.

God had planned something better for us, so that together with us they would be made perfect.

in joyful assembly, to the congregation of the firstborn, enrolled in heaven. You have come to God the judge of all men, to the spirits of the righteous made perfect,

Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, with whom there is no change or shifting shadow.

But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom, and continues to do so-not being a forgetful hearer, but an effective doer-he will be blessed in what he does.

We all stumble in many ways. If anyone is never at fault in what he says, he is a perfect man, able to control his whole body.

There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear involves punishment. The one who fears has not been perfected in love.