70 Bible Verses about Growth

Until we all arrive to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to the perfect man, to the measure of age of the filling up of Christ. That we be no more babes, tossed about, and carried around by every wind of doctrine, in the playing at dice of men, in craft, with the artifice of deceit; And speaking the truth in love, let us grow up into him in all things, who is the head, Christ:

And I, brethren, was not able to speak to you as spiritual, but as carnal, as babes in Christ. I have given you milk to drink, and not food; for ye were not able, but neither now are ye yet able.

When I was a child, as a child I spake, as a child I thought, as a child I reckoned: and when I had become a man, I left unemployed the things of a child.

Brethren, be not children in reflection: but in wickedness act like children, and in reflection be ye perfected.

For also ye ought to be teachers for the time, again ye have need for some one to teach you the elements of the beginning of the sayings of God; and have become those having need of milk, and not of firm food. For every one partaking of milk is inexperienced in the word of justice: for he is a child. And firm food is of the perfected, of them by habit having the senses exercised for the separation of good and evil.

As new born babes, long for the sincere milk pertaining to the word, that ye might be nourished with it:

And that having fallen into thorns, and they are they having heard, and with cares and riches, and pleasures of life going forth, are choked, and bring not to maturity. And that in the good earth, they are they which, in a fair and good heart, having heard, keep the word, and bring forth fruit with patience.

And he having sown among thorns, this is he hearing the word; and the care of this time, and the deceit of riches, choke the word, and it is unfruitful. But he having sown upon good earth is he hearing the word, and understanding; who indeed bears fruit, and who makes truly a hundred, and who sixty, and who thirty.

And the cares of this time, and the deceit of riches, and eager desires about remaining things, coming in, choke the word, and it is unfruitful. And these are they sown on good earth; who hear the word, and receive, and bear fruit, one thirty, and one sixty, and one a hundred.

And now he furnishing seed to him sowing, and bread for food, furnish and multiply your sowing-season, and increase the fruits of your justice;)

For we rejoice when we be weak, and ye be able: and this also we pray, your restoration.

Whom we announce, reminding every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfected in Christ jesus:

Epaphras, who of you, greets you, a servant of Christ, always contending for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfected and completed in all the will of God.

Not boasting in things immeasurable, in the toils of others; and having hope, your faith being increased, to be enlarged in you according to our rule for abundance, To announce the good hews in things beyond you, not in another's rule to boast for things prepared.

We ought to return thanks to God always for you, brethren, as is fitting, for your faith increases exceedingly, and the love of each one of you all enlarges to one another;

And grow ye in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him the glory now and to the day of eternity. Amen.

That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, might give you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in his knowledge: The eyes of your understanding enlightened; for you to know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the holy ones,

That he might give to you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with power by his Spirit in the interior man; For Christ to dwell by faith in your hearts; in love being rendered firm, and the foundation laid, That ye might be fully able to comprehend with all the holy what the length, and breadth, and depth, and height;read more.
To know also the love of Christ, surpassing knowledge, that ye might be filled in all the fulness of God.

For you to walk worthy of the Lord in all pleasing behavior, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

As his divine power having bestowed upon us all things which for life and devotion, by the knowledge of him having called us by glory and fitness:

For also ye do the same to all the brethren, them in the whole of Macedonia: and we beseech you, brethren, to more abound;

And this I prey, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all intelligence;

And the Lord increase you and make you to abound in love to one another, and to all, as also we to you:

And in devotion brotherly love; and in brotherly love, love. For these being to you, and abounding, they establish you not without effort, neither unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

And not having power over the Head, from whom all the body, by all the senses of touch and connections furnished and joined together, increases with the increase of God.

I have planted, Apollos watered; but God increased. So that neither he planting is anything, neither he watering; but God increasing.

Confident of this same, that he having begun a good work in you will complete till the day of Jesus Christ:

Therefore setting aside all wickedness, and all artifice, and dissimulation; and envies, and all calumnies,

For if ye live according to the flesh, ye shall die: and if by the Spirit ye kill the deeds of the body, ye shall live. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God.

Therefore having these declarations, dearly let us cleanse ourselves from all defilements of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

And they of Christ have crucified the flesh with the passions and desires.

For you to put away according to the former mode of life the old man, corrupted according to the eager desires of deceit; And to be renewed in the spirit of your mind; And to put on the new man, created according to God in justice and sanctity of truth.

Therefore kill your members that are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry: For these comes the Wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience: In which also ye then walked, when ye lived in them.read more.
And now ye also put them all away; anger, wrath, badness, slander, shameful language out of your mouth. Lie not to one another, having put off the old man with big deeds; And having put on the new, being renewed in knowledge according to the image of him having created him:

Therefore having left the word of the beginning of Christ, we should go on to perfection; not again laying down the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God, Of the teaching of immersions, and placing upon of hands, and of the rising up of the dead, and of eternal judgment.

Of whom great is the word to us, and difficult of interpretation to speak, since ye have been sluggish in the hearing. For also ye ought to be teachers for the time, again ye have need for some one to teach you the elements of the beginning of the sayings of God; and have become those having need of milk, and not of firm food. For every one partaking of milk is inexperienced in the word of justice: for he is a child.read more.
And firm food is of the perfected, of them by habit having the senses exercised for the separation of good and evil.

I Beseech you therefore, brethren, by the compassions of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, pleasing to God, your reasonable service.

And let patience have a perfect work, that ye be perfect and entire, being left behind in nothing.

Therefore, my beloved, as ye have always listened, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, with fear and tremor effect your own salvation.

Not that I have alreaedy attained or have been already perfected: and I pursue, if I also may overtake, for which also I was overtaken by Christ Jesus.

And also this same, having brought in at the side all earnestness, furnish in addition in your faith fitness; and In fitness knowledge; And in knowledge self-control; and in self-control patience; and in patience devotion; And in devotion brotherly love; and in brotherly love, love.read more.
For these being to you, and abounding, they establish you not without effort, neither unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

And truly he gave the sent; and the prophets; and the bearers of good tidings; and the shepherds, and the teachers; For the adjusting of the holy, for the work of the service, for the building up of the body of Christ:

Pursue love, and be emulous of spiritual things, and rather that ye might prophesy. For he speaking in a tongue speaks not to men, but to God: (for none hears; and in the spirit he speaks mysteries.) And he prophesying speaks to men for building the house, and entreaty, and encouragement.read more.
And he speaking in a tongue builds himself; and he prophesying builds the church. And I will ye all to speak with tongues, and rather that ye prophesy; for geater he prophesying, than he speaking with tongues, unless he interpret accurately, that the church receive building up.

Until we all arrive to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to the perfect man, to the measure of age of the filling up of Christ. That we be no more babes, tossed about, and carried around by every wind of doctrine, in the playing at dice of men, in craft, with the artifice of deceit; And speaking the truth in love, let us grow up into him in all things, who is the head, Christ:read more.
From whom all the body fitted together and joined together by every touch of the expenditure, according to the energy in measure of one of each part, makes the increase of the body to the building up of itself in love.

And the boy Samuel going, will become great and good, also with Jehovah and with men.

And Jesus advanced in wisdom and age, and in grace with God and man.

And the child grew, and was strengthened in spirit, and he was in the deserts till the day of his shewing forth to Israel.

And Saul was the more strengthened, and confounded the Jews dwelling in Damascus, demonstrating that this is the Christ.

Being present to you as also in all the world; and is bearing fruit, as also in you, from the day which ye heard and knew the grace of God in truth:

Another parable set he before them, saying, The kingdom of the heavens is like a kernel of mustard, which a man taking, sowed in his field: Which truly is less than all seeds; but when it has grown, it is greater than vegetables, and becomes a tree, so that the flying things of heaven come and lodge in its young shoots. Another parable spake he to them; The kingdom of the heavens is like to leaven, which a woman having taken, hid in three measures of wheaten flour, till the whole was leavened.

And he said, To what should we liken the kingdom of God? or in what parable should we hold it forth? As a kernel of mustard, which, when it be sown in the earth, is smaller than all seeds upon the earth: And when it be sown, it comes up and is greater than all vegetables, and makes great young shoots; so that the flying things of heaven can encamp under its shadow.

And he said, To what is the kingdom of God like? and to what shall I liken it? It is like a kernel of mustard, which a man having taken, cast into his garden; and it grew, and became into a great tree; and the fowls of heaven encamped in its young shoots. And again he said, To what shall I liken the kingdom of God?read more.
It is like leaven, which a woman having taken, hid in three measures of wheaten flour, until the whole was leavened.

And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed upon the earth; And he sleep, and should rise night and day, and the seed should sprout, and be raised; how, he knows not. For the earth bears fruit spontaneously; first the grass, then the ear, then the full wheat in the ear.read more.
But when the fruit should yield, quickly he sends the sickle, for the harvest is brought forward.

And many of them having heard the word, believed; and the number of men was about five thousand.

Then truly they having gladly received his word were immersed: and in that day were added about three thousand souls.

And the believing were the more added to the Lord, multitudes of men and also of women.)

And the word of God increased: and the number of disciples was multiplied greatly in Jerusalem; and a great crowd of priests listened to the faith.

Then truly the churches through the Whole of Judea and Galilee and Samaria, had peace, being built up; and going in the fear of the Lord, and in the consolation of the Holy Spirit, were multiplied.

And the hand of the Lord was with them; and a great number having believed, turned to the Lord.

And it was in Iconium according to the same, went they into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spake, that a great multitude of the Jews and also of Greeks believed.

Therefore truly the churches were rendered firm in faith, and abounded in number daily.