Mark 4:27
and should sleep and rise, night and day, and the seed should spring up and grow, he knows not how.
John 3:7-8
Wonder not that I said to you, you must all be born again,
1 Corinthians 15:37-38
and as to that which you sow, you sow not the body that shall be produced, but the naked grain, it may be of wheat, or of some other grain:
2 Thessalonians 1:3
We are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, as it is right, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of every one of you all toward each other abounds:
2 Peter 3:18
But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.