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perfect

Meaning of “perfect”

Complete, whole, sound, mature, upright, fully fitted, finished, exact, or lacking nothing required for the person, work, knowledge, state, purpose, or standard in view; to perfect is to bring to that intended completion or maturity.

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First occurrence: Genesis 6:9

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Hebrews 9:11
But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;
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1611 witness · Hebrews 9:11 · retained source text

But Christ being come an high Priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect Tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building:

Hebrews 10:1
FOR the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Hebrews 10:1 · retained source text

¶ For the Law hauing a shadow of good things to come, and not the very Image of the things, can neuer with those sacrifices which they offered yeere by yeere continually, make the commers thereunto perfect:

Hebrews 11:40
God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.
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The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Hebrews 11:40 · retained source text

God hauing prouided some better thing for vs, that they without vs, should not be made perfect.

1611 marginal noteOr, foreseene.

Hebrews 12:23
To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
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1611 witness · Hebrews 12:23 · retained source text

To the generall assembly, and Church of the first borne which are written in heauen, and to God the Iudge of all, and to the spirits of iust men made perfect:

1611 marginal noteOr, inrouled.

Hebrews 13:21
Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Hebrews 13:21 · retained source text

Make you perfect in euery good worke to doe his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Iesus Christ, to whom be glorie for euer and euer. Amen.

1611 marginal noteOr, doing.

James 1:4
But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
2 word occurrences in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · James 1:4 · retained source text

But let patience haue her perfect worke, that ye may be perfect, and entier, wanting nothing.

James 1:17
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
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1611 witness · James 1:17 · retained source text

Euery good gift, and euery perfect gift is from aboue, & commeth downe from the Father of lights, with whom is no variablenesse, neither shadow of turning.

James 1:25
But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
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1611 witness · James 1:25 · retained source text

But who so looketh into the perfect Law of libertie, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetfull hearer, but a doer of the worke, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

1611 marginal noteOr, doing.

James 2:22
Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect?
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1611 witness · James 2:22 · retained source text

Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect?

1611 marginal noteOr, thou seest.

James 3:2
For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.
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1611 witness · James 3:2 · retained source text

For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.

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