“So you must be perfect, just as your Heavenly Father is perfect.”
The book this verse appears in
What is the book of Matthew?
The book this verse appears in
What is the book of Psalms?
The author of this book of the Bible
Who is the Apostle Paul?
The testament this verse appears in
What is the New Testament?
The author of this book of the Bible
Who is the Apostle Paul?
What the word “perfect” in this verse refers to
What is maturity/completeness?
This verse expresses confidence that the Lord will complete something. Name the specific phrase used to describe this ongoing work in the believer’s life.
What is “his purpose for me?”
In this verse, Paul says he has not yet “taken hold of” something. Name a later verse in the chapter that repeats this phrase to emphasize spiritual progress.
What is Philippians 3:13? (“Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead,”)
This verse refers to believers being “made holy.” Name the theological term for this ongoing process.
What is sanctification?
The person who’s power is said to be “made perfect in weakness”
Before this verse, in the same chapter, Jesus gives an example from nature to show how God treats all people the same. Name the part of creation He mentions.
What is the sun and the rain? (Matthew 5:45, “He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.”)
The Hebrew word behind “purpose” in this verse can also mean “plan” or “intention.” Name the theme this connects to elsewhere in Psalms.
What is God’s sovereignty/control over all things?
Paul says he “presses on” because Christ has already taken hold of him. Name what this shows about the relationship between effort and God’s action.
Believers pursue growth because God has already worked in them first.
This verse talks about being “made perfect.” Name who/what is being made perfect.
What are believers/those being sanctified?
What Paul shares this verse in response to praying 3 times about
What is the “thorn in the flesh?”
What kind of person this verse concludes Jesus’s sermon about responding to
What is an enemy?
The king this Psalm is attributed to
Who is King David?
This chapter was written during Paul’s imprisonment. Name the place Paul was likely imprisoned when he wrote this letter.
What is Rome?
The Old Testament ritual that the writer of this book compares Christ’s offering to earlier in this chapter
What are “The day of atonement sacrifices?” (Yom Kippur; the high priest’s sacrifices)
This verse teaches that God’s power is strongest when people feel weakest. Name what Paul says he will “delight in” because of this truth.
What are his weaknesses?
This verse parallels an Old Testament idea about being holy. Name the specific book where God says, “Be holy, for I am holy.”
What is the book of Leviticus?
This verse ends with a statement about God not abandoning “the works of His hands.” Name the earlier Psalm that uses the same phrase to describe humans as God’s creation.
What is Psalms 8? (Psalms 8:3, “When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,”)
Paul’s statement here connects to an earlier phrase in the chapter about “knowing Christ.” Name the full goal he is striving for, according to the surrounding context.
What is knowing Christ fully and attaining the resurrection from the dead?
This verse says believers are “made holy.” Name the Greek root word that “holy” comes from (meaning set apart
The phrase “my grace is sufficient” is spoken directly by Jesus. Name the unusual grammatical feature that makes this verse stand out among Paul’s writings?
What is a direct quote from Jesus? (Paul rarely included direct quotes from Christ in his letters)