¹³ You shall be blameless before the Lord your God,

^48 (A)You therefore must be ^(B)perfect, ^(C)as your heavenly Father is perfect.

Abraham and the Covenant of Circumcision

17 When Abram was ninety-nine years old the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty;^[a] walk before me, and be ^(A)blameless,

Noah and the Flood

⁹ These are the generations of Noah. ^(A)Noah was a righteous man, ^(B)blameless in his generation. Noah ^(C)walked with God.

Straining Toward the Goal

¹² Not that I have already ^(A)obtained this or ^(B)am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own.

⁸ And the Lord said to Satan, “Have you ^(A)considered my ^(B)servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, ^(C)a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil?”

Job's Character and Wealth

1 There was a man in the land of ^(A)Uz whose name was ^(B)Job, and that man was ^(C)blameless and upright, one who ^(D)feared God and ^(E)turned away from evil.

² Wake up, and strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have not found your works ^(A)complete in the sight of my God.

¹⁵ Let those of us who are ^(A)mature think this way, and if in anything ^(B)you think otherwise, ^(C)God will reveal that also to you.