27 Bible Verses about Change And Growth

came among you, to thrive and bear its fruit among you, as it does all over the world, from the time when you first heard about the mercy of God,

But which of you with all his worry can add a single hour to his life?

And all of us, reflecting the splendor of the Lord in our unveiled faces, are being changed into likeness to him, from one degree of splendor to another, for this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.

and endurance, character, and character, hope,

so that the lives you live may be worthy of your Master and wholly pleasing to him, and you may be fruitful in all kinds of good deeds, and may grow into fuller knowledge of God.

Brothers, you must not be children mentally. In evil be babies, but mentally be mature.

We must not be babies any longer, blown about and swung around by every wind of doctrine through the trickery of men with their ingenuity in inventing error.

They will perish, but you continue! And they will all wear out like a coat,

and like new-born babes crave the pure spiritual milk that will make you grow up to salvation,

Let as many of us therefore as are mature have this attitude. If you have any different attitude, God will make this clear to you.

So faith comes from hearing what is told, and that hearing comes through the message about Christ.

You must be rooted and built up in him and made strong in faith, just as you were taught to be, overflowing with it in your gratitude.

God bless you and give you perfect peace through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.

You foolish man, the very seed you sow never comes to life without dying first;

Let everyone who can hear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches. I will give him who is victorious some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white pebble with a new name written on it which no one knows except the man who receives it.'

For anyone who is limited to milk is unacquainted with Christian teaching, for he is only an infant.

That is why, from the day I first heard of it, I have never given up praying for you and asking God to fill you, through full spiritual wisdom and insight, with a clear knowledge of what his will is,

More than that, we ought to glory in our troubles, for we know that trouble produces endurance,

and you are yourselves built up into a dwelling for God through the Spirit.

You must grow in the blessing and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Glory to him now and forever.

You must lay aside with your former habits your old self which is going to ruin through its deceptive passions.

This is the message that we heard from him and announce to you: God is light; there is no darkness in him at all.

That is why God has abandoned them to degrading passions. Their women have exchanged their natural function for one that is unnatural,

and when you sow it, it has not the form it is going to have, but is a naked kernel, perhaps of wheat or something else;

For in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God through your faith.

It is the smallest of all seeds, but when it is grown it is the largest of plants and grows into a tree, so that the wild birds come and roost in its branches."

Then desire conceives and gives birth to sin, and when sin is mature, it brings forth death.