45 Bible Verses about Change And Growth

that has come to you, just as also in all the world it is bearing fruit and increasing, just as also among you from the day you heard about and understood the grace of God in truth,

And who among you, [by] being anxious, is able to add one hour to his life span?

And we all, with unveiled face, reflecting the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory into glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit.

and patient endurance, proven character, and proven character, hope,

so that you may live in a manner worthy of the Lord, {to please [him] in all respects}, bearing fruit in every good deed and increasing in the knowledge of God,

"Indeed, there is hope for a tree: if it is cut down, then it will sprout again, and its new shoots will not cease;

Brothers, do not become children in [your] understanding, but with respect to wickedness be as a child, and in [your] understanding be mature.

When the grass is gone, then green growth will appear, and the herbs of the mountains will be gathered.

so that we may no longer be infants, tossed about by waves and carried about by every wind of teaching, by the trickery of people, by craftiness with reference to the scheming of deceit.

Just as you do not know how the path of the wind [goes], nor how the bones [of a fetus] form in a mother's womb, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything.

they will perish, but you continue, and they will all become old like a garment,

like newborn infants long for the unadulterated spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up to salvation,

Therefore as many as [are] perfect, {let us hold this opinion}, and if you think anything differently, God will reveal this also to you.

Grass withers; [the] flower withers, but the word of our God will stand forever.

and with [the] choice things of [the] fruits of the [the] sun, and with the choice things of [the] yield of [the] {seasons},

Consequently, faith [comes] by hearing, and hearing through the word about Christ.

firmly rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding with thankfulness.

A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth stands forever.

May grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord,

Foolish person! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.

Trickle, O heavens, from above, and let clouds trickle [with] righteousness; let [the] earth open so that salvation may be fruitful, and let it cause righteousness to sprout along with it. I myself, Yahweh, have created it.

so that [the] next generation might know-- children [yet to] be born-- [that] they might rise up and tell their children,

You care for the land and water it; you greatly enrich it. The stream of God [is] filled with waters. You provide their grain, for so you have established it.

The one who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers, I will give to him [some] of the hidden manna, and I will give to him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written, that no one knows except the one who receives [it].'

may the wise hear and increase learning, and the one who understands gain direction,

For everyone who partakes of milk [is] unacquainted with the message of righteousness, because he is an infant.

Because of this also we, from the day we heard about [it], did not cease praying for you, and asking that you may be filled [with] the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual insight,

Until a spirit is poured out on us from on high, and [the] wilderness becomes fruitful field, and [the] fruitful field is reckoned as the forest.

And not only [this], but we also boast in our afflictions, [because we] know that affliction produces patient endurance,

in whom you also are built up together into a dwelling place of God in [the] Spirit.

I will open rivers on [the] barren heights and fountains in [the] midst of [the] valleys. I will make [the] wilderness like a pool of water and [the] land of dryness like springs of water.

But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him [be] the glory, both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.

[that] you take off, according to your former way of life, the old man, who is being destroyed according to deceitful desires,

You drench its furrows, penetrating its ridges. With rains you soften it; its growth you bless.

In the morning it blossoms and sprouts anew; by evening it withers and dries up.

Your clothing did not wear out {on you}, and your feet did not swell [during] these forty years.

And this is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light and there [is] no darkness in him at all.

For just as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and they do not return there except they have watered the earth thoroughly and cause it to bring forth and sprout, and give seed to the sower and bread to the eater,

But you, Daniel, keep the words secret and seal the scroll until [the] time of [the] end; many will run back and forth and knowledge will increase."

Because of this, God gave them over to degrading passions, for their females exchanged the natural relations for those contrary to nature,

And what you sow [is] not the body which it will become, but you sow the bare seed, whether perhaps of wheat or of some of the rest.

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

{It} is the smallest of all the seeds, but when it is grown it is larger than the garden herbs and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the sky come and nest in its branches."

Then desire, [after it] has conceived, gives birth to sin, and sin, [when it] is brought to completion, gives birth to death.

I will be like the dew to Israel; he will blossom like the lily plant, and he will strike his roots like the [trees of] Lebanon.