teleios · complete, mature

What it means

teleios (τέλειος) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “complete, mature”.

Whole; often rendered “perfect.”

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Grown-up, fully developed.
2. Whole, lacking nothing.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• mature ×7
• perfect ×7
• complete ×5

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×3
• Romans×1
• 1 Corinthians×3
• Ephesians×1
• Philippians×1
• Colossians×2
• Hebrews×2
• James×5
• 1 John×1

• Matthew 5:48

  So you shall be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

• Matthew 19:21

  Jesus said to him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give them to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”

• Romans 12:2

  And do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, so that you may discern what the will of God is: what is good and pleasing and complete.

• 1 Corinthians 2:6

  Yet we speak wisdom among the mature, but a wisdom not of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are passing away.

• 1 Corinthians 13:10

  but when the complete comes, what is in part will be done away with.

• 1 Corinthians 14:20

  Brothers, do not be children in your thinking, but in malice be infants, and in your thinking be mature.

• Ephesians 4:13

  until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of the Messiah,

• Philippians 3:15

  So as many as are mature, let us think this way; and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal that also to you.

• Colossians 1:28

  Him we proclaim, admonishing every person and teaching every person in all wisdom, so that we may present every person mature in the Messiah.

• Colossians 4:12

  Epaphras, who is one of you, a slave of the Messiah, greets you, always struggling on behalf of you in his prayers, so that you may stand mature and fully assured in all the will of God.

• Hebrews 5:14

  But solid food is for the mature, those who because of practice have their faculties trained for distinguishing good and evil.

• Hebrews 9:11

  But when the Messiah came as high priest of the good things that have come, through the greater and more perfect tent, not made with hands, that is, not of this creation,

• James 1:4

  And let perseverance have its complete work, so that you may be complete and whole, lacking in nothing.

• James 1:17

  Every good giving and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.

• James 1:25

  But the one who looks intently into the perfect law, the law of freedom, and remains in it, becoming not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be happy in his doing.

• James 3:2

  For we all stumble in many ways. If anyone does not stumble in word, he is a perfect man, able to bridle also the whole body.

• 1 John 4:18

  There is no fear in love, but complete love casts fear out, because fear has to do with punishment; and whoever fears has not been brought to completion in love.

And 2 more times.