45 Bible Verses about Change And Growth
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Which is come to you, as it is in all the world; and bringeth forth fruit, as it doth also in you, since the day ye heard of it, and knew the grace of God in truth:
Which of you by anxious care can add one cubit to his stature?
But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
And patience, experience; and experience, hope:
That ye may walk worthy of the Lord to all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
For there is hope of a tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its tender branch will not cease.
Brethren, be not children in understanding: yet in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.
The plant appeareth, and the tender grass showeth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered.
That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, by which they lie in wait to deceive:
As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor the structure of the parts of conception in her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all.
They shall perish; but thou remainest: and they all shall become old as doth a garment;
As new-born babes, desire the pure milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:
Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye are otherwise minded, God will reveal even this to you.
The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall shall stand forever.
And for the precious fruits brought forth by the sun, and for the precious things put forth by the moon,
So then, faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
Rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.
One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.
Grace and peace be multiplied to you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,
Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I the LORD have created it.
That the generation to come might know them, even the children who should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children:
Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it: thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water: thou preparest them corn, when thou hast so provided for it.
He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth, he excepted, that receiveth it.
A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain to wise counsels:
For every one that useth milk, is unskillful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.
For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;
Until the spirit shall be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness shall be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be counted for a forest.
And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also; knowing that tribulation worketh patience;
I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.
That ye put off concerning the former manner of life the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts:
Thou waterest the ridges of it abundantly: thou settlest the furrows of it: thou makest it soft with showers: thou blessest the springing of it.
In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
Thy raiment hath not become old upon thee, neither hath thy foot swelled these forty years.
This then is the message which we have heard from him, and declare to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:
But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
For this cause God gave them up to vile affections. For even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain; it may be of wheat, or of some other grain:
For ye are all children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
Which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge on its branches.
Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
I will be as the dew to Israel: he shall grow as the lily and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.