Thus ¹  we are writing these things so that ²  our ³  joy may be complete. ⁴ 

We are also ready to punish every act of disobedience, ¹  whenever your obedience is complete.

And let endurance have its perfect effect, so that you will be perfect and complete, not deficient in anything.

Thus ¹  we urged ²  Titus that, just as he had previously begun this work, ³  so also he should complete this act of kindness ⁴  for you.

but when what is perfect ¹  comes, the partial will be set aside.

For which of you, wanting to build a tower, doesn’t sit down ¹  first and compute the cost ²  to see if he has enough money to complete it?

complete my joy and be of the same mind, ¹  by having the same love, being united in spirit, ²  and having one purpose.

and you have been filled in him, who is the head over every ruler and authority.

The slave masters were pressuring ¹  them, saying, “Complete ²  your work for each day, just like when there was straw!”

Yet even then ¹  I will not completely destroy you,” says the Lord.

Solomon took thirteen years to build his palace. ¹ 

For he fulfills his decree against me, ¹  and many such things are his plans. ² 

I absolutely hate them, ¹  they have become my enemies!

So then, be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect. ¹ 

I rejoice because in everything I am fully confident in you.

that the person dedicated to God ¹  may be capable ²  and equipped for every good work.

In the fourth generation ¹  your descendants ²  will return here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its limit.” ³ 

I have told you these things ¹  so that my joy may be in you, and your joy may be complete.

since it was because of the work of Christ that he almost died. He risked his life so that he could make up for your inability to serve me. ¹ 

“The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundations of this temple, ¹  and his hands will complete it.” Then you will know that the Lord who rules over all has sent me to you.