27 Bible Verses about Change And Growth

which reached you, and since it is bearing fruit and growing among you, just as it is all over the world, from the day you first heard of God's favor and in reality came to know it,

But which of you by worrying can add a single minute to his life?

And all of us, with faces uncovered, because we continue to reflect like mirrors the splendor of the Lord, are being transformed into likeness to Him, from one degree of splendor to another, since it comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.

and endurance, tested character, and tested character, hope,

so that you may lead lives worthy of the Lord to His full satisfaction, by perennially bearing fruit in every good enterprise and by a steady growth in fuller knowledge of God;

Brothers, stop being children in intelligence, but as to evil keep on being babies; and yet as to intelligence be men of maturity.

so that we may not be babies any longer, or like sailors tossed about and driven around by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men through their cunning in inventing new methods of error.

They will perish, but you always remain; they all will grow old like a coat,

and like new-born babies thirst for pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up to final salvation,

So let us all who are mature have this attitude. If you have a different attitude, God will make it clear to you.

So faith comes from hearing what is told, and hearing through the message about Christ.

with your roots deeply planted in Him, being continuously built up in Him, and growing stronger in faith, just as you were taught to do, overflowing through it in your gratitude.

spiritual blessing and peace be to you in increasing abundance through a full knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord;

You foolish man! the seed that you sow never comes to life unless it dies first;

Let everyone who has ears listen to what the Spirit says to the churches. I will give to him who conquers some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone with a new name written on it which no one knows except the man who receives it."'"

For everyone who uses milk alone is inexperienced in the message of right-doing; he is only an infant.

This is why, ever since I heard of it, I have never ceased praying for you and asking God to fill you, through full wisdom and spiritual insight, with a clear knowledge of His will,

And not only that, but this too: let us continue exulting in our sufferings, for we know that suffering produces endurance,

and you yourselves, in union with Him, in fellowship with one another, are being built up into a dwelling for God through the Spirit.

but instead, you must continue to grow in the spiritual strength and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To Him be glory now and forever!

to lay aside, with your former way of living, your old self which is on the way to destruction in accordance with its deceptive impulses;

And this is the message that we have heard from Him and now announce to you: God is light, and there is no darkness at all in Him.

This is why God has given them up to degrading passions. For their females have exchanged their natural function for one that is unnatural,

and what you sow does not have the body that it is going to have, but is a naked grain, of wheat (it may be) or something else;

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

It is the smallest of all seeds, but when it is grown it is the largest of plants; yea, it grows into a tree, so that the wild birds come and roost in its branches."

Then evil desire conceives and gives birth to sin, and when sin is completed, it brings forth death.