Lexicon :: Strong's G5048 - teleioō

After those days were over, as they were returning, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem, but his parents[fn] did not know it.

He said to them, “Go tell that fox, ‘Look, I’m driving out demons and performing healings today and tomorrow, and on the third day I will complete my work.’[fn]

“My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work,” Jesus told them.

“But I have a greater testimony than John’s because of the works that the Father has given me to accomplish. These very works I am doing testify about me that the Father has sent me.

“I have glorified you on the earth by completing the work you gave me to do.

“I am in them and you are in me, so that they may be made completely one, that the world may know you have sent me and have loved them as you have loved me.

After this, when Jesus knew that everything was now finished that the Scripture might be fulfilled, he said, “I’m thirsty.”

“But I consider my life of no value to myself; my purpose is to finish my course[fn] and the ministry I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of God’s grace.

Not that I have already reached the goal or am already perfect, but I make every effort to take hold of it because I also have been taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

For in bringing many sons and daughters to glory, it was entirely appropriate that God ​— ​for whom and through whom all things exist ​— ​should make the pioneer[fn] of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

After he was perfected, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him,

(for the law perfected nothing), but a better hope is introduced, through which we draw near to God.

For the law appoints as high priests men who are weak, but the promise of the oath, which came after the law, appoints a Son, who has been perfected forever.

This is a symbol for the present time, during which gifts and sacrifices are offered that cannot perfect the worshiper’s conscience.

Since the law has only a shadow of the good things to come, and not the reality itself of those things, it can never perfect the worshipers by the same sacrifices they continually offer year after year.

For by one offering he has perfected forever those who are sanctified.

since God had provided something better for us, so that they would not be made perfect without us.

to the assembly of the firstborn whose names have been written[fn] in heaven, to a Judge, who is God of all, to the spirits of righteous people made perfect,

You see that faith was active together with his works, and by works, faith was made complete,

But whoever keeps his word, truly in him the love of God is made complete. This is how we know we are in him:

No one has ever seen God. If we love one another, God remains in[fn] us and his love is made complete in us.

In this, love is made complete with us so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment, because as he is, so also are we in this world.