27 Bible Verses about Change And Growth

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,

Which of you by being over-anxious can add a single foot to his height?

And all of us, with unveiled faces, reflecting like bright mirrors the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same likeness, from one degree of radiant holiness to another, even as derived from the Lord the Spirit.

fortitude, ripeness of character; and ripeness of character, hope;

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.

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.

So we shall no longer be babes nor shall we resemble mariners tossed on the waves and carried about with every changing wind of doctrine according to men's cleverness and unscrupulous cunning, making use of every shifting device to mislead.

The heavens will perish, but Thou remainest; and they will all grow old like a garment,

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

Therefore let all of us who are mature believers cherish these thoughts; and if in any respect you think differently, that also God will make clear to you.

And this proves that faith comes from a Message heard, and that the Message comes through its having been spoken by Christ.

having the roots of your being firmly planted in Him, and continually building yourselves up in Him, and always being increasingly confirmed in the faith as you were taught it, and abounding in it with thanksgiving.

May more and more grace and peace be granted to you in a full knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord,

Foolish man! the seed you yourself sow has no life given to it unless it first dies;

"'Let all who have ears give heed to what the Spirit is saying to the Churches. He who overcomes--to him I will give some of the hidden Manna, and a white stone; and--written upon the stone and known only to him who receives it-- a new name.'

By people who live on milk I mean those who are imperfectly acquainted with the teaching concerning righteousness.

For this reason we also, from the day we first received these tidings, have never ceased to pray for you and to entreat that you may be filled with a clear knowledge of His will accompanied by thorough wisdom and discernment in spiritual things;

And not only so: we also exult in our sufferings, knowing as we do, that suffering produces fortitude;

in whom you also are being built up together to become a fixed abode for God through the Spirit.

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!

to put away, in regard to your former mode of life, your original evil nature which is doomed to perish as befits its misleading impulses,

This is the Message which we have heard from the Lord Jesus and now deliver to you--God is Light, and in Him there is no darkness.

This then is the reason why God gave them up to vile passions. For not only did the women among them exchange the natural use of their bodies for one which is contrary to nature, but the men also,

and as for what you sow, it is not the plant which is to be that you are sowing, but a bare grain, of wheat (it may be)

You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus;

It is the smallest of all seeds, and yet when full-grown it is larger than any herb and forms a tree, so that the birds come and build in its branches."

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