different definition. They thought of “perfect” as being “mature and complete.” The Greek word teleiōs is derived from the word telos, meaning “the end,” “the limit,” or “the fulfillment.” Paul used this word to speak of Jesus Christ as “the complete fulfillment” of God’s law (Rom. 10:4). In his letter to the Colossians, Paul uses teleiōs to speak of “the end”—that is, the completion or “perfection”—of Christians (Col. 1:28; 4:12). Paul himself was always pressing toward the goal of Christian “perfection,”