52 Bible Verses About Spiritual Maturity

The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.

So shall I keep thy law continually for ever and ever.

Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.

It is as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom.

Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.

Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word.

For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.

A fool’s wrath is presently known: but a prudent man covereth shame.

Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.

And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the Lord hath not spoken?

Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

Be not righteous over much; neither make thyself over wise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself?

For the ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meat.

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not enquire wisely concerning this.

And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth; for I have hoped in thy judgments.

The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.

Lord, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me.

My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.

And David girded his sword upon his armour, and he assayed to go; for he had not proved it. And David said unto Saul, I cannot go with these; for I have not proved them. And David put them off him.

I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts.

And it shall come to pass, when ye be multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, saith the Lord, they shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of the Lord: neither shall it come to mind: neither shall they remember it; neither shall they visit it; neither shall that be done any more.

When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed.

Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causeth to err from the words of knowledge.

If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.

But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

Forty years old was I when Moses the servant of the Lord sent me from Kadesh–barnea to espy out the land; and I brought him word again as it was in mine heart.

Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.

The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. O when wilt thou come unto me? I will walk within my house with a perfect heart.

Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the Lord your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

They also do no iniquity: they walk in his ways.

Bow down thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine heart unto my knowledge.

Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.

Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord.

If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:

How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver!

A man’s pride shall bring him low: but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit.

It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord.

And Samuel said, Hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.

Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom.

And that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean;

Also, that the soul be without knowledge, it is not good; and he that hasteth with his feet sinneth.

So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding;

And when he had made an end of prophesying, he came to the high place.

Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.

I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.

He that handleth a matter wisely shall find good: and whoso trusteth in the Lord, happy is he.

And Abraham was old, and well stricken in age: and the Lord had blessed Abraham in all things.

The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: but the folly of fools is deceit.

And Abraham said, I will swear.