44 Bible Verses about Change And Growth
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Which has come to you; and which in all the world is giving fruit and increase, as it has done in you from the day when it came to your ears and you had true knowledge of the grace of God;
And which of you by taking thought is able to make himself a cubit taller?
But we all, with unveiled face giving back as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord who is the Spirit.
And waiting gives experience; and experience, hope:
Living uprightly in the approval of the Lord, giving fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
For there is hope of a tree; if it is cut down, it will come to life again, and its branches will not come to an end.
My brothers, do not be children in mind: in evil be as little children, but in mind be of full growth.
The grass comes up and the young grass is seen, and the mountain plants are got in.
So that we may be no longer children, sent this way and that, turned about by every wind of teaching, by the twisting and tricks of men, by the deceits of error;
As you have no knowledge of the way of the wind, or of the growth of the bones in the body of her who is with child, even so you have no knowledge of the works of God who has made all.
They will come to their end; but you are for ever; they will become old as a robe;
Be full of desire for the true milk of the word, as babies at their mothers' breasts, so that you may go on to salvation;
Then let us all, who have come to full growth, be of this mind: and if in anything you are of a different mind, even this will God make clear to you:
And the good things of the fruits of the sun, and the good things of the growth of the moons,
So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.
Rooted and based together in him, strong in the faith which the teaching gave you, giving praise to God at all times.
May grace and peace ever be increasing in you, in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord;
Foolish man, it is necessary for the seed which you put into the earth to undergo death in order that it may come to life again:
Let righteousness come down, O heavens, from on high, and let the sky send it down like rain: let the earth be open to give the fruit of salvation, causing righteousness to come up with it; I the Lord have made it come about.
So that the generation to come might have knowledge of them, even the children of the future, who would give word of them to their children;
You have given your blessing to the earth, watering it and making it fertile; the river of God is full of water: and having made it ready, you give men grain.
He who has ears, let him give ear to what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes I will give of the secret manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name, of which no one has knowledge but he to whom it is given.
(The wise man, hearing, will get greater learning, and the acts of the man of good sense will be wisely guided:)
For everyone who takes milk is without experience of the word of righteousness: he is a child.
For this reason, we, from the day when we had word of it, keep on in prayer for you, that you may be full of the knowledge of his purpose, with all wisdom and experience of the Spirit,
Till the spirit comes on us from on high, and the waste land becomes a fertile field, and the fertile field is changed into a wood.
And not only so, but let us have joy in our troubles: in the knowledge that trouble gives us the power of waiting;
In whom you, with the rest, are united together as a living-place of God in the Spirit.
I will make rivers on the dry mountain-tops, and fountains in the valleys: I will make the waste land a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
But be increased in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. May he have glory now and for ever. So be it.
That you are to put away, in relation to your earlier way of life, the old man, which has become evil by love of deceit;
You make the ploughed lands full of water; you make smooth the slopes: you make the earth soft with showers, sending your blessing on its growth.
Through all these forty years your clothing did not get old or your feet become tired.
This is the word which came to us from him and which we give to you, that God is light and in him there is nothing dark.
For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and does not go back again, but gives water to the earth, and makes it fertile, giving seed to the planter, and bread for food;
But as for you, O Daniel, let the words be kept secret and the book rolled up and kept shut till the time of the end: numbers will be going out of the way and troubles will be increased.
For this reason God gave them up to evil passions, and their women were changing the natural use into one which is unnatural:
And when you put it into the earth, you do not put in the body which it will be, but only the seed, of grain or some other sort of plant;
Because you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.
Which is smaller than all seeds; but when it has come up it is greater than the plants, and becomes a tree, so that the birds of heaven come and make their resting-places in its branches.
Then when its time comes, desire gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is of full growth, gives birth to death.
I will be as the dew to Israel; he will put out flowers like a lily, and send out his roots like Lebanon.