Quotes about Perfection
All who pass by clap their hands at you in scorn. They hiss and shake their heads at the Daughter of Jerusalem: “Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?”
— Lamentations 2:15
Your fame spread among the nations on account of your beauty, for it was perfect in the splendor I bestowed on you, declares the Lord GOD.
— Ezekiel 16:14
Your borders are in the heart of the seas; your builders perfected your beauty.
— Ezekiel 27:4
Men of Arvad and Helech manned your walls all around, and the men of Gammad were in your towers. They hung their shields around your walls; they perfected your beauty.
— Ezekiel 27:11
“Son of man, take up a lament for the king of Tyre and tell him that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘You were the seal of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.
— Ezekiel 28:12
Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
— Matthew 5:48
Jesus told him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow Me.”
— Matthew 19:21
but when the perfect comes, the partial passes away.
— 1 Corinthians 13:10
Therefore, beloved, since we have these promises, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that defiles body and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
— 2 Corinthians 7:1
In fact, we rejoice when we are weak but you are strong, and our prayer is for your perfection.
— 2 Corinthians 13:9
And having been made perfect, He became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey Him
— Hebrews 5:9
Now if perfection could have been attained through the Levitical priesthood (for on this basis the people received the law), why was there still need for another priest to appear—one in the order of Melchizedek and not in the order of Aaron?
— Hebrews 7:11