Perfection

How Nave’s arranged it

• (Moral completeness)
• Ascribed to .NoahGenesis 6:8Genesis 6:9
• JacobNumbers 23:21
• David1 Kings 11:41 Kings 11:6
• Asa1 Kings 15:14
• JOBJob 1:1
• Zacharias and ElizabethLuke 1:6
• NathanaelJohn 1:47
• UNCLASSIFIED SCRIPTURES RELATING TOGenesis 17:1Deuteronomy 5:32Deuteronomy 18:13Joshua 23:61 Kings 8:611 Chronicles 28:91 Chronicles 29:192 Chronicles 6:36Job 9:20Job 9:21Psalms 18:32Psalms 37:31Psalms 37:37Psalms 101:2Psalms 106:3Psalms 119:1–3Psalms 119:6Psalms 119:96Proverbs 2:21Ecclesiastes 7:20
• See God, Perfection of
• See Holiness
• See Sanctification

The passages, in Bible order (63)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Genesis 6:8

   Noah, however, found favor in the eyes of the LORD.

   ›Commentary on Genesis 6:82 voices

   “And for a very long while wickedness extended and spread, and reached and laid hold upon the whole race of mankind, until a very small seed of righteousness remained among them: and illicit unions took place upon the earth, since angels were united with the daughters of the race of mankind; and they bore to them sons who for their exceeding greatness were called giants.

   “But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. This man and his family were the only exception to the general apostasy; God always reserves some, in the worst of times, for himself; there is a remnant, according to the election of grace; it was but a small one, and that now appeared; and this was owing to the grace of God, and his choice upon that, and not to the merits of the creature.

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2. Genesis 6:9

   This is the account of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation; Noah walked with God.

   ›Commentary on Genesis 6:91 voice

   “(Verse 9) Noah was a righteous and blameless man in his generation, pleasing to God. Specifically, it says 'in his generation' to show that his righteousness was not according to the perfected righteousness, but according to the righteousness of his generation. And this is what is said in Hebrew: Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generations, he walked with God; that is, he followed in his footsteps.

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3. Genesis 17:1

   When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am God Almighty. Walk before Me and be blameless.

   ›Commentary on Genesis 17:11 voice

   “The words "be blameless" are addressed to Abraham, to whom had been given the spirit of wisdom, holy, marvelously agile, unpolluted. The soul of the just man, therefore, must be in training night and day, ever on the lookout, never indulging in sleep but on perpetual watch, intent on God, so as to understand the things that are and to comprehend the causes of each. But wisdom is also the interpreter of future things: "She knows the things of old and infers the things to come. She understands turns of speech and the solutions of riddles.

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4. Numbers 23:21

   He considers no disaster for Jacob; He sees no trouble for Israel. The LORD their God is with them, and the shout of the King is among them.

   ›Commentary on Numbers 23:211 voice

   “He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel,....

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5. Deuteronomy 5:32

   So be careful to do as the LORD your God has commanded you; you are not to turn aside to the right or to the left.

   ›Commentary on Deuteronomy 5:321 voice

   “Ye shall observe to do therefore as the Lord your God doth command you,.... Observe every precept, as to matter and manner, which the Lord has commanded, and that under a sense of the great obligations laid on them by him, in giving them freely so good a land to possess: you shall not turn to the right hand or to the left; but walk in the way of the commandments of God, and not depart from them at all, but follow the Lord in his own ways fully.

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6. Deuteronomy 18:13

   You must be blameless before the LORD your God.

   ›Commentary on Deuteronomy 18:131 voice

   “Thou shalt be perfect with the Lord thy God. Sincerely serve and worship him, faithfully adhere to his word, laws, statutes, and ordinances, and walk uprightly before him.

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7. Joshua 23:6

   Be very strong, then, so that you can keep and obey all that is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, not turning aside from it to the right or to the left.

   ›Commentary on Joshua 23:61 voice

   “Be ye therefore very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses,.... To observe which required spiritual strength, fortitude of mind, a holy courage, a firm and fixed resolution, and particularly to destroy the Canaanites required in that book, and to abstain from all communion and fellowship with them: that ye turn not aside therefrom, to the right hand or the left; See Gill on Jos 1:7.

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8. 1 Kings 8:61

   So let your heart be fully devoted to the LORD our God, as it is this day, to walk in His statutes and to keep His commandments.”

   ›Commentary on 1 Kings 8:611 voice

   “Let your heart therefore be perfect with the Lord your God,.... Sincere in their love to him, united in their worship of him, and constant in their obedience to him: to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day: as they did that day, neither king nor people having as yet fallen into idolatry, but showing by their then present appearance a zeal for God, his house, and worship.

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9. 1 Kings 11:4

   For when Solomon grew old, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and he was not wholeheartedly devoted to the LORD his God, as his father David had been.

   ›Commentary on 1 Kings 11:41 voice

   “And it came to pass, when Solomon was old,....

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10. 1 Kings 11:6

    So Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD; unlike his father David, he did not follow the LORD completely.

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    “And Solomon did evil in the sight of the Lord,.... As idolatry is, nothing more provoking to him: and went not fully after the Lord, as did David his father; for though he did not relinquish the worship of the true God, and the service of the temple, yet inasmuch as he worshipped other gods besides, or connived at the worship of them, he did not wholly, and constantly, and solely serve the Lord, as his father did.

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11. 1 Kings 15:14

    The high places were not removed, but Asa’s heart was fully devoted to the LORD all his days.

    ›Commentary on 1 Kings 15:141 voice

    “Regarding many kings of the line of David, we read that they were saved not through their own merit but through the virtues of their father, David, who did that which was pleasing in the sight of God. And we come to Asa, the king of Judah, of whom it is written: "Asa did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, as did David, his father." And after a lengthy account of his many virtues, the story is concluded with these words: "But the high places he did not take away.

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12. 1 Chronicles 28:9

    As for you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve Him wholeheartedly and with a willing mind, for the LORD searches every heart and understands the intent of every thought. If you seek Him, He will be found by you; but if you forsake Him, He will reject you forever.

    ›Commentary on 1 Chronicles 28:91 voice

    "Do you know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? If anyone destroys the temple of God, him will God destroy." And in another place: "The Lord is with you as long as you are with him. If you abandon him, he also will abandon you."

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13. 1 Chronicles 29:19

    And give my son Solomon a whole heart to keep and carry out all Your commandments, decrees, and statutes, and to build Your palace for which I have made provision.”

    ›Commentary on 1 Chronicles 29:191 voice

    “And give unto Solomon my son a perfect heart to keep thy commandments, thy testimonies, and thy statutes,.... All the laws of God, moral, ceremonial, and judicial, even to observe them cordially and sincerely: and to do all those things; he had suggested to him particularly: and to build the palace for the which I have made provision; as before declared.

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14. 2 Chronicles 6:36

    When they sin against You—for there is no one who does not sin—and You become angry with them and deliver them to an enemy who takes them as captives to a land far or near,

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15. Job 1:1

    There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. And this man was blameless and upright, fearing God and shunning evil.

    ›Commentary on Job 1:11 voice

    “I am forced, through each of the books of Divine Scripture, to respond to the slander of adversaries who accuse my translation of rebuking the Seventy translators, not as though among the Greeks Aquila, Symmachus, and Theodotion had also translated either word for word, or meaning for meaning, or by mixing both together, also a kind of translation of equal proportion, and also Origen had divided all the scrolls of the Old Instrument with obeli and asterisks which, either added by him or taken from Theodotion, he added to the ancient translation, proving what was added to have been lacking.

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16. Job 9:20

    Even if I were righteous, my mouth would condemn me; if I were blameless, it would declare me guilty.

    ›Commentary on Job 9:201 voice

    “If I desire to justify myself; mine own, mouth shall condemn me; if I say I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse. As if it were in plain words; 'Why should I speak about others, when I cannot bear testimony concerning myself?' But whereas thou art not competent to witness to thine own innocency, dost thou know the fact that thou art innocent?

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