39 Bible Verses about Growing

But be always growing in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To Him be all glory, both now and to the day of Eternity!

so that your lives may be worthy of the Lord and perfectly pleasing to Him, while you exhibit the results of right action of every sort and grow into a fuller knowledge of God.

and as for you, may the Lord teach you to love one another and all men, with a growing and a glowing love, resembling our love for you.

For I always beseech the God of our Lord Jesus Christ--the Father most glorious--to give you a spirit of wisdom and penetration through an intimate knowledge of Him,

And as Jesus grew older He gained in both wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man.

And the child grew and became strong and full of wisdom, and the favour of God rested upon Him.

For it has reached you, and remains with you, just as it has also spread through the whole world, yielding fruit there and increasing, as it has done among you from the day when first you heard it and came really to know the grace of God,

So that neither the planter nor the waterer is of any importance. God who gives the increase is all in all.

And it is my prayer that your love may be more and more accompanied by clear knowledge and keen perception, for testing things that differ,

We do not exceed our due limits, and take credit for other men's labours; but we entertain the hope that, as your faith grows, we shall gain promotion among you--still keeping within our own sphere--promotion to a larger field of labour,

So the Churches went on gaining a stronger faith and growing in numbers from day to day.

He must grow greater, but I must grow less.

Leave both to grow together until the harvest, and at harvest-time I will direct the reapers, Collect the darnel first, and make it up into bundles to burn it, but bring all the wheat into my barn.'"

till we all of us arrive at oneness in faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God, and at mature manhood and the stature of full-grown men in Christ.

Such a one does not keep his hold upon Christ, the Head, from whom the Body, in all its parts nourished and strengthened by its points of contact and its connections, grows with a divine growth.

he spends days and nights, now awake, now asleep, while the seed sprouts and grows tall, he knows not how.

I planted and Apollos watered; but it was God who was, all the time, giving the increase.

And the child grew and became strong in character, and lived in the Desert till the time came for him to appear publicly to Israel.

Dependent on Him, the whole body--its various parts closely fitting and firmly adhering to one another-- grows by the aid of every contributory link, with power proportioned to the need of each individual part, so as to build itself up in a spirit of love.

in union with whom the whole fabric, fitted and closely joined together, is growing so as to form a holy sanctuary in the Lord;

If these things exist in you, and continually increase, they prevent your being either idle or unfruitful in advancing towards a full knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Then the passion conceives, and becomes the parent of sin; and sin, when fully matured, gives birth to death.

Through faith Moses, when he grew to manhood, refused to be known as Pharaoh's daughter's son,

Unceasing thanks are due from us to God on your behalf, brethren. They are appropriate because your faith is growing greatly, and the love of every one of you for all the others goes on increasing.

But some of the seed falls into good ground, and gives a return: it comes up and increases, and yields thirty, sixty, or a hundred-fold."

Observe the lilies, how they grow. They neither labour nor spin. And yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendour was as beautifully dressed as one of these.

Thus mightily did the Lord's Message spread and triumph!

Thirst, like newly-born infants, for pure milk for the soul, that by it you may grow up to salvation;

Now I say that so long as an heir is a child, he in no respect differs from a slave, although he is the owner of everything,

and because of the prevalent disregard of God's law the love of the great majority will grow cold;

By using the words, "a new Covenant," He has made the first one obsolete; but whatever is decaying and showing signs of old age is not far from disappearing altogether.

Another part drops upon the rock, and after growing up it withers away for want of moisture.

Brethren, do not prove yourselves to be children in your minds. As regards evil, indeed, be utter babes, but as regards your minds prove yourselves to be men of ripe years.