Mark 4:27
and sleeps and wakes, night and day, and the seed germinates, and grows he knows not how.
John 3:7-8
Wonder not that I said to you, You must be born again.
1 Corinthians 15:37-38
and what you sow, you sow not the body which shall be, but the naked grain, it may be of wheat, or some of the other grains;
2 Thessalonians 1:3
We ought to thank God always for you, brothers, as is fit, because your faith increases greatly, and the love of every one of you all one for another abounds,
2 Peter 3:18
but grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever.