Bible Verses About Perfection

When Avram was 99 years old ADONAI appeared to Avram and said to him, "I am El Shaddai [God Almighty]. Walk in my presence and be pure-hearted.

"Therefore you are to be careful to do as ADONAI your God has ordered you; you are not to deviate either to the right or the left.

You must be wholehearted with ADONAI your God.

"Therefore be very firm about keeping and doing everything written in the book of the Torah of Moshe and not turning aside from it either to the right or to the left.

So be wholehearted with ADONAI our God, living by his laws and observing his mitzvot, as you are doing today."

"As for you, Shlomo my son, know the God of your father. Serve him wholeheartedly and with desire in your being; for ADONAI searches all hearts and understands all the inclinations of people's thoughts. If you seek him, he will let himself be found by you; but if you abandon him, he will reject you forever.

and give to Shlomo my son wholeheartedness to obey your mitzvot, instructions and rules, to do all these things, and to build the palace for which I have made provision."

"If they sin against you - for there is no one who doesn't sin - and you are angry with them and hand them over to the enemy, so that they carry them off captive to a land far away or nearby;

Even if I'm right, my own mouth will condemn me; if I'm innocent, it would pronounce me guilty.

"I am innocent. Don't I know myself? But I've had enough of this life of mine!

"It is God who girds me with strength; he makes my way go straight.

The Torah of his God is in his heart; his footsteps do not falter.

Observe the pure person, consider the upright; for the peaceful person will have posterity.

I will follow the path of integrity; when will you come to me? I will run my life with a sincere heart inside my own house.

How happy are those who act justly, who always do what is right!

(Alef) How happy are those whose way of life is blameless, who live by the Torah of ADONAI!

How happy are those who observe his instruction, who seek him wholeheartedly!

They do nothing wrong but live by his ways.

Then I will not be put to shame, since I will have fixed my sight on all your mitzvot.

(Mem) I see the limits of all perfection, but your mitzvah has no bounds.

ADONAI will fulfill his purpose for me. Your grace, ADONAI, continues forever. Don't abandon the work of your hands!

For the upright will live in the land, the pure-hearted will remain there;

But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, shining ever brighter until full daylight.

For there isn't a righteous person on earth who does [only] good and never sins.

"How blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness! for they will be filled.