34 Bible Verses about Progress

And we all, shown as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, with the face uncovered, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, as from the Spirit of the Lord.

And speaking the truth in love, let us grow up into him in all things, who is the head, Christ:

And the just shall hold on his way, and the clean one of hands shall add strength.

Happy the man strength to him in thee; the raised ways in their heart;

The just one shall flourish as the palm tree: he shall become great as the cedar in Lebanon.

The path of the just as the light shining, going and shining even to the day prepared.

For whom he before knew, he also before determined of the form of the image of his Son, for him to be first born in many brethren. And whom he before determined, these he also called: and whom he called, these he also justified: and whom he justified, these he also glorified.

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.

For by thee I will break down a troop, and in my God I will leap upon the wall.

Do ye not know that they running in a race-course, all truly run, and one receives the prize of combat? Do ye so run, that ye might receive. And every one contending for the prize, has self command in all things. These surely therefore that they might receive a corruptible crown; and we an incorruptible. I therefore so run, as not uncertainly; so practise I pugilism, as not laying stripes upon air:read more.
But I give my body a blow under the eyes, and reduce to bondage: lest having proclaimed to others, I myself be rejected.

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. Brethren, I reckon not myself to have been overtaken: but one, truly forgetting things behind, and stretching still farther to things before, I pursue toward the scope for the prize of combat of the calling above of God in Christ Jesus.

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

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;

Bestow diligent care upon these things; be in them; that thy progress may be manifest in all things.

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,

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

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 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.

For we have been partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our foundation firm to the end;

And ye shall be hated by all for my name: and he having remained to the end shall be saved.

And ye shall be hated by all for my name's sake: and he having remained to the end, the same shall be saved.

But he having persevered to the end, this shall be saved.

And we have been persuaded of you, dearly beloved, of better things, and connected with salvation, if we also thus speak. For God is not unjust to forget your work and fatigue of love, which ye showed to his name, having served to the holy ones, and serving. And we desire each of you to show the same earnestness to the complete certainty of hope to the end:

And I say to thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock will I build my church; and the gates of hell shall not overcome her.

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.

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.

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.

Praising God, and having favor with the whole people. And in the day the Lord added the saved to the church.

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

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.

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