We all stumble in many ways. Anyone who is never at fault in what they say is perfect, able to keep their whole body in check.

Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive, and your joy will be complete.

As for God, his way is perfect: The Lord’s word is flawless; he shields all who take refuge in him.

Make sure that nobody pays back wrong for wrong, but always strive to do what is good for each other and for everyone else.

I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.

Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

I appeal to you, brothers and sisters, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree with one another in what you say and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly united in mind and thought.

Do everything without grumbling or arguing, so that you may become blameless and pure, “children of God without fault in a warped and crooked generation.” Then you will shine among them like stars in the sky as you hold firmly to the word of life.

And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.

And, once made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him.

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

Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.