39 Bible Verses about Growing

on the contrary, may you increase in the favour, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ! to him be glory both now and for ever. AMEN.

that your conduct may be worthy of the Lord, in every respect agreeable to him, being friutful in every kind of virtue, and increasing in divine knowledge:

may the Lord make you increase and abound in mutual love, in love towards all men, as we do towards you:

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the father of glory, may give you the spirit of wisdom and revelation, whereby ye may know him:

in the mean time Jesus increas'd in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man.

and the child grew in stature and in all the improvements of the mind; he was stor'd with wisdom, and was the object of divine favour.

which is not only come to you, but to all the world; where it produces its effects, and increases, as it does also among you, ever since you sincerely embrac'd the divine favour,

so then, neither is he that planted any thing, nor he that watered: it is God only that gives the increase.

and the favour I ask of him is this, that your kindness to me may be crown'd with farther improvements in knowledge and all prudence;

I don't assume to myself the credit of other men's labours in another province, but hope, that when your faith is increased, the bounds now prescribed will be enlarged by you yet farther;

thus were the churches established in the faith, and daily grew more numerous.

he must advance,

up the wheat with them. let both grow together till the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will thus direct the reapers, first of all gather the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: then lodge the wheat in my barn.

till being united in a perfect belief, and acknowledgment of the son of God, we grow up to that full state of maturity required by Christ:

not adhering to the head, from which all the parts of the body derive its nutrition, and being firmly united together by its joints and ligaments, receives a divine increase.

however he takes his repose by night, or is employ'd by day, the grain shoots up and grows without his inspection.

I have planted, Apollos watered: but God gave the increase.

Now the child continued to grow, and greatly improv'd in sense; and was in the desarts till the time, when he was to be manifested to Israel.

from which the whole body fitly framed, and compacted by the entire adherence and contribution of every part performing its respective function, increases and improves itself by the mutual concern of the parts.

on which the whole structure rises with symmetry into a temple, consecrated by the Lord:

for if you are possess'd of these virtues and improve therein, they will prevent the knowledge you have of our Lord Jesus Christ from being useless to others, and unprofitable to yourselves.

and the genuine offspring of sin is death.

by faith Moses when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter;

We are oblig'd, my brethren, to render thanks to God continually upon your account, as it is but just; since your faith still improves, and your mutual love is always increasing.

but part of it fell on good ground, which sprang up, and grew so fruitful, that some grains produced thirty, others sixty, and some an hundred.

consider the lillys how they grow: they neither toil nor spin: and yet, I tell you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

thus the christian doctrine flourish'd and prevail'd.

which is without any mixture, and will make you thrive. Since you have tasted how good the Lord is,

Now I say, that the heir, as long as he is a child, is in a state of servitude, tho' he is to be lord of all;

and as iniquity becomes more flagrant, the zeal of many will grow cool.

now by stiling the second a new alliance, he has antiquated the first. but to be antiquated and obsolete is next to being abolished.

some fell upon very stony ground, which no sooner sprung up, but it wither'd away, for want of moisture:

Brethren, be not childish in understanding: be as innocent as babes, but use your understanding like men.