Lexicon :: Strong's G5046 - teleios

“Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

“If you want to be perfect,”[fn] Jesus said to him, “go, sell your belongings and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.”

Do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may discern what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.

We do, however, speak a wisdom among the mature, but not a wisdom of this age, or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.

but when the perfect comes, the partial will come to an end.

Brothers and sisters, don’t be childish in your thinking, but be infants in regard to evil and adult in your thinking.

until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of God’s Son, growing into maturity with a stature measured by Christ’s fullness.

Therefore, let all of us who are mature think this way. And if you think differently about anything, God will reveal this also to you.

We proclaim him, warning and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone mature in Christ.

Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, sends you greetings. He is always wrestling for you in his prayers, so that you can stand mature and fully assured[fn] in everything God wills.

But solid food is for the mature ​— ​for those whose senses have been trained to distinguish between good and evil.

But Christ has appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come.[fn] In the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands (that is, not of this creation),

And let endurance have its full effect, so that you may be mature and complete, lacking nothing.

Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.

But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom and perseveres in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer who works ​— ​this person will be blessed in what he does.

For we all stumble in many ways. If anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is mature, able also to control the whole body.

There is no fear in love; instead, perfect love drives out fear, because fear involves punishment.[fn] So the one who fears is not complete in love.