17 Bible Verses About Spiritual Maturity

And David girded his sword upon his armour, and he assayed to go; for he had not proved it. And David said unto Saul, I cannot go with these; for I have not proved them. And David put them off him.

Forty years old was I when Moses the servant of the Lord sent me from Kadesh–barnea to espy out the land; and I brought him word again as it was in mine heart.

And Abraham said, I will swear.

And Samuel said, Hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.

And when he had made an end of prophesying, he came to the high place.

That the Lord called Samuel: and he answered, Here am I.

Thou shalt be perfect with the Lord thy God.

Thou shalt therefore obey the voice of the Lord thy God, and do his commandments and his statutes, which I command thee this day.

And I will come down and talk with thee there: and I will take of the spirit which is upon thee, and will put it upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with thee, that thou bear it not thyself alone.

Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the Lord your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

(Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth.)

And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the Lord hath not spoken?

If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:

And Abraham was old, and well stricken in age: and the Lord had blessed Abraham in all things.

Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.

And that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean;

Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee: