20 Bible Verses about Growing Up

The child grew and was weaned, and Abraham held a great feast on the day Isaac was weaned.

When the boys grew up, Esau became an expert hunter, an outdoorsman, but Jacob was a quiet man who stayed at home.

When the child grew older, she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, “Because,” she said, “I drew him out of the water.”

Years later, after Moses had grown up, he went out to his own people and observed their forced labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his people.

So the woman gave birth to a son and named him Samson. The boy grew, and the Lord blessed him.

would you be willing to wait for them to grow up? Would you restrain yourselves from remarrying? No, my daughters, my life is much too bitter for you to share, because the Lord’s hand has turned against me.”

Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, “Remain a widow in your father’s house until my son Shelah grows up.” For he thought, “He might die too, like his brothers.” So Tamar went to live in her father’s house.

So she took off her widow’s clothes, veiled her face, covered herself, and sat at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the way to Timnah. For she saw that, though Shelah had grown up, she had not been given to him as a wife.

He grew up before Him like a young plant
and like a root out of dry ground.
He didn’t have an impressive form
or majesty that we should look at Him,
no appearance that we should desire Him.

I made you thrive like plants of the field. You grew up and matured and became very beautiful. Your breasts were formed and your hair grew, but you were stark naked.

Their offspring are healthy and grow up in the open field.
They leave and do not return.

From one of them a little horn emerged and grew extensively toward the south and the east and toward the beautiful land.

God was with the boy, and he grew; he settled in the wilderness and became an archer.

The Lord paid attention to Hannah’s need, and she conceived and gave birth to three sons and two daughters. Meanwhile, the boy Samuel grew up in the presence of the Lord.

By contrast, the boy Samuel grew in stature and in favor with the Lord and with men.

Samuel grew, and the Lord was with him, and He fulfilled everything Samuel prophesied.

The child grew up and became spiritually strong, and he was in the wilderness until the day of his public appearance to Israel.

The boy grew up and became strong, filled with wisdom, and God’s grace was on Him.

And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and with people.