By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be called a son of Pharaoh's daughter,

Now Barnabas, Simeon called Niger, Lucius from Cyrene, Manaen, who grew up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul were prophets and teachers in the church at Antioch.

Instead, by speaking the truth in love, we will grow up completely and become one with the head, that is, one with the Messiah,

See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God and that no bitter root grows up and causes you trouble, or many of you will become defiled.

When that desire becomes pregnant, it gives birth to sin; and when that sin grows up, it gives birth to death.

But others fell on good soil and produced a crop. They grew up, increased in size, and produced 30, 60, or 100 times what was sown."

And a harvest of righteousness is grown from the seed of peace planted by peacemakers.

You have endured and suffered because of my name, yet you have not grown weary.

Although it is the smallest of all seeds, when it is fully grown it is larger than the garden plants and becomes a tree, and the birds in the sky come and nest in its branches."

when it's planted it comes up and becomes larger than all the garden plants. It grows such large branches that the birds in the sky can nest in its shade."

When the days grew closer for Jesus to be taken up to heaven, he was determined to continue his journey to Jerusalem.

He sleeps and gets up night and day while the seeds sprout and grow, although he doesn't know how

They asked, "Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up toward heaven? This same Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you saw him go up into heaven."

When the first angel blew his trumpet, hail and fire were mixed with blood and thrown on the earth. One-third of the earth was burned up, one-third of the trees was burned up, and all the green grass was burned up.