Teleioo describes bringing people to a completed state or carrying a work, course, or appointed period through to its completion.

The verb most often concerns persons or qualities described as having reached a completed state: love in believers, faith expressed with works, and people connected with salvation or righteousness. It also describes completing an assigned work, ministry, course, or period of days, while several Hebrews clauses state that law and sacrifices did not accomplish this result.

1. Bringing persons or qualities to completion · dominant

   Perfect passive forms describe love as completed in those who keep the word or love one another in 1 John 2:5 and 1 John 4:12; the APB renders these clauses "has been perfected" and "has been made perfect." In Hebrews 10:14, the third-person perfect active form concerns those being sanctified, while James 2:22 says faith "was made complete by the works."

   1 John 2:51 John 4:12Hebrews 10:14Hebrews 12:23James 2:22Philippians 3:12
2. Completing a task, course, or appointed time · common

   Active infinitives and participles occur with finishing a course and ministry in Acts 20:24, completing work given to do in John 17:4, and completing days in Luke 2:43. In John 4:34 and John 5:36, the first-person aorist active subjunctive is tied to doing and completing the work given by the Father.

   Acts 20:24John 17:4John 4:34John 5:36Luke 2:43John 19:28

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB uses "perfected," "made perfect," and "made complete" where persons, love, or faith are in view, and "finish," "completing," or "completed" for courses, work, and days. Because the APB is a whole-verse translation, these renderings show the clauses' presentation rather than fixed equivalents for each form.