You therefore be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.

However, we speak wisdom among those that are perfect, but not the wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are being destroyed.

until we all arrive to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to [the] measure of [the] stature of the fullness of Christ;

Therefore, as many as are mature, let us think this way; and if in anything you think otherwise, even this God will reveal to you.

For we all stumble in many [ways]. If anyone does not stumble in word, he is a mature man, able also to bridle the whole body.

For there is no injustice in my tongue; and does not my throat meditate understanding?

For the ear tries words, and the palate tastes meats.

For the ear tries words, and the mouth tastes meat.

How sweet are Your oracles to my taste! More so than honey to my mouth!

And the smell of your ointments is better than all spices: your name is ointment poured forth; therefore do the young maidens love you.

As the apple among the trees of the wood, so is my kinsman among the sons. I desired his shadow, and sat down, and his fruit was sweet in my throat.

"The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light.

But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be dark. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!

the eyes of your heart having been enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints,

[ 3:6] For God knew that in whatever day you should eat of it, your eyes would be opened, and you would be as gods, knowing good and evil.

And the woman said, If now the word of my lord the king be gracious,--[well]: for as an angel of God, so [is] my lord the king, to hear good and evil; and the Lord your God shall be with you.

Give therefore to Your servant a heart to hear and to judge Your people justly, and to discern between good and evil: for who will be able to judge this Your great people?

And the Lord said to him, Because you have asked this thing of Me, and have not asked for yourself long life, and have not asked wealth, nor have asked for the lives of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to hear judgment;

Butter and honey shall He eat, before He knows either to prefer evil [or] choose the good.

Receive one that is weak in the faith, not for disputes over opinions.

But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

But he that is spiritual discerns all things, yet he himself is discerned by no man.

And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all perception,

that you may approve the things that are excellent, in order that you may be sincere and without offense till the day of Christ,

But test all things; hold fast that which is good.