20 Bible Verses about Growing Up

And when the child was old enough to be taken from the breast, Abraham made a great feast.

And the boys came to full growth; and Esau became a man of the open country, an expert bowman; but Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents.

And when the child was older, she took him to Pharaoh's daughter and he became her son, and she gave him the name Moses, Because, she said, I took him out of the water.

Now when Moses had become a man, one day he went out to his people and saw how hard their work was; and he saw an Egyptian giving blows to a Hebrew, one of his people.

So the woman gave birth to a son, and gave him the name Samson; and he became a man and the blessing of the Lord was on him.

Would you keep yourselves till they were old enough? would you keep from having husbands for them? No, my daughters; but I am very sad for you that the hand of the Lord is against me.

Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, Go back to your father's house and keep yourself as a widow till my son Shelah becomes a man: for he had in his mind the thought that death might come to him as it had come to his brothers. So Tamar went back to her father's house.

She took off her widow's clothing, and covering herself with her veil, she took her seat near Enaim on the road to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was now a man, but she had not been made his wife.

For his growth was like that of a delicate plant before him, and like a root out of a dry place: he had no grace of form, to give us pleasure;

And be increased in number like the buds of the field; and you were increased and became great, and you came to the time of love: your breasts were formed and your hair was long; but you were uncovered and without clothing.

Their young ones are strong, living in the open country; they go out and do not come back again.

And out of one of them came another horn, a little one, which became very great, stretching to the south and to the east and to the beautiful land.

And God was with the boy, and he became tall and strong, and he became a bowman, living in the waste land.

And the Lord had mercy on Hannah and she gave birth to three sons and two daughters. And the young Samuel became older before the Lord.

And the young Samuel, becoming older, had the approval of the Lord and of men.

And Samuel became older, and the Lord was with him and let not one of his words be without effect.

And the child became tall, and strong in spirit; and he was living in the waste land till the day when he came before the eyes of Israel.

And the child became tall and strong and full of wisdom, and the grace of God was on him.

And Jesus was increasing in wisdom and in years, and in grace before God and men.