What does scripture say?
Perfect is translated from:
[*StrongsHebrew*]
3477
ישׁר
yâshâr yaw-shawr'
From H3474; straight (literally or figuratively): - {convenient} {equity} {Jasher} {just} meet ({-est}) + pleased well right ({-eous}) {straight} (most) upright ({-ly} -ness).
Straight is translated from:
[*StrongsHebrew*]
8535
תּם
tâm tawm
From H8552; complete; usually (morally) pious; specifically {gentle} dear: - coupled {together} {perfect} {plain} {undefiled} upright.
Paul uses a Greek word in Ephesians 4.
[*StrongsGreek*]
05046
τέλειος téleios, tel'-i-os
from 5056;
complete (in various applications of labor, growth, mental and moral character, etc.); neuter (as noun, with 3588)
[*StrongsGreek*]
05083
THRE/W τηρέω tēréō tay-reh'-o from τερός terós, (a watch; perhaps akin to 2334);
to guard (from loss or injury, properly, by keeping the eye upon; and thus differing from 5442, which is properly to prevent escaping; and from 2892, which implies a fortress or full military lines of apparatus), i.e. to note (a prophecy; figuratively, to fulfil a command); by implication, to detain (in custody; figuratively, to maintain); by extension, to withhold (for personal ends; figuratively, to keep unmarried); by extension, to withhold (for personal ends; figuratively, to keep unmarried):--hold fast, keep(- er), (pre-, re-)serve, watch.
[*StrongsGreek*]
03141
μαρτυρία martyría, mar-too-ree'-ah
from 3144;
evidence given (judicially or genitive case):--record, report, testimony, witness.
Oaul uses a very similar word in 2Corinthians 1: 6.
It is translated from:
[*StrongsGreek*]
03142
μαρτύριον martýrion, mar-too'-ree-on
neuter of a presumed derivative of 3144;
something evidential, i.e. (genitive case) evidence given or (specially), the Decalogue (in the sacred Tabernacle):--to be testified, testimony, witness.
Moses tells us what the testimony is.
Testimony is translated from:
[*StrongsHebrew*]
5715
עדוּת
‛êdûth ay-dooth'
Feminine of H5707; testimony: - {testimony} witness.
So is sinning necessary? Not according to scripture. Job was perfect according to God, and scripture tells us there will be a people who will no longer sin at the time of the end.
| Job 1: 6 ¶Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan came also among them.*n5*n6 7 And the Lord said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the Lord, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it. 8 And the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?*n7 |
Perfect is translated from:
[*StrongsHebrew*]
3477
ישׁר
yâshâr yaw-shawr'
From H3474; straight (literally or figuratively): - {convenient} {equity} {Jasher} {just} meet ({-est}) + pleased well right ({-eous}) {straight} (most) upright ({-ly} -ness).
Straight is translated from:
[*StrongsHebrew*]
8535
תּם
tâm tawm
From H8552; complete; usually (morally) pious; specifically {gentle} dear: - coupled {together} {perfect} {plain} {undefiled} upright.
Paul uses a Greek word in Ephesians 4.
| 13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: |
[*StrongsGreek*]
05046
τέλειος téleios, tel'-i-os
from 5056;
complete (in various applications of labor, growth, mental and moral character, etc.); neuter (as noun, with 3588)
| Revelation 12: 17 And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ. |
[*StrongsGreek*]
05083
THRE/W τηρέω tēréō tay-reh'-o from τερός terós, (a watch; perhaps akin to 2334);
to guard (from loss or injury, properly, by keeping the eye upon; and thus differing from 5442, which is properly to prevent escaping; and from 2892, which implies a fortress or full military lines of apparatus), i.e. to note (a prophecy; figuratively, to fulfil a command); by implication, to detain (in custody; figuratively, to maintain); by extension, to withhold (for personal ends; figuratively, to keep unmarried); by extension, to withhold (for personal ends; figuratively, to keep unmarried):--hold fast, keep(- er), (pre-, re-)serve, watch.
[*StrongsGreek*]
03141
μαρτυρία martyría, mar-too-ree'-ah
from 3144;
evidence given (judicially or genitive case):--record, report, testimony, witness.
Oaul uses a very similar word in 2Corinthians 1: 6.
| 1Corinthians 1: 5 That in every thing ye are enriched by him, in all utterance, and in all knowledge; 6 Even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you: |
It is translated from:
[*StrongsGreek*]
03142
μαρτύριον martýrion, mar-too'-ree-on
neuter of a presumed derivative of 3144;
something evidential, i.e. (genitive case) evidence given or (specially), the Decalogue (in the sacred Tabernacle):--to be testified, testimony, witness.
Moses tells us what the testimony is.
| 16 And thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which I shall give thee. |
Testimony is translated from:
[*StrongsHebrew*]
5715
עדוּת
‛êdûth ay-dooth'
Feminine of H5707; testimony: - {testimony} witness.
So is sinning necessary? Not according to scripture. Job was perfect according to God, and scripture tells us there will be a people who will no longer sin at the time of the end.
