imperfection
What does the Bible say about imperfection? These are the passages readers found most helpful — tap any citation to read it in context.
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1For this reason, O man, each one of you who judges is inexcusable. For by that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you do the same things that you judge.
9If we confess our sins, then he is faithful and just, so as to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all iniquity.
8For by grace, you have been saved through faith. And this is not of yourselves, for it is a gift of God.
8But God demonstrates his love for us in that, while we were yet sinners, at the proper time,
48Therefore, be perfect, even as your heavenly Father is perfect.”
12No one has ever seen God. But if we love one another, God abides in us, and his love is perfected in us.
8For by grace, you have been saved through faith. And this is not of yourselves, for it is a gift of God. 9And this is not of works, so that no one may glory.
15For we do not have a high priest who is unable to have compassion on our infirmities, but rather one who was tempted in all things, just as we are, yet without sin.
23For all have sinned and all are in need of the glory of God.
5And he saved us, not by works of justice that we had done, but, in accord with his mercy, by the washing of regeneration and by the renovation of the Holy Spirit,
27And God created man to his own image; to the image of God he created him; male and female, he created them.
10The thief does not come, except so that he may steal and slaughter and destroy. I have come so that they may have life, and have it more abundantly.
12It is not as though I have already received this, or were already perfect. But rather I pursue, so that by some means I might attain, that in which I have already been attained by Christ Jesus.
20Wisdom has strengthened the wise more than ten princes of a city.
2For we all offend in many ways. If anyone does not offend in word, he is a perfect man. And he is then able, as if with a bridle, to lead the whole body around.
2But your iniquities have made a division between you and your God, and your sins have concealed his face from you, so that he would not hear.
13Everything is possible in him who has strengthened me.