9 Bible Verses about Adulthood

Meanwhile, Jesus kept on growing wiser and more mature, and in favor with God and his fellow man.

But they would not follow the advice of their father; for the LORD wanted to put them to death. But the boy Samuel continued to grow both physically and in favor with the LORD and the people.

Now the child continued to grow and to become spiritually strong. He lived in the wilderness until the day he appeared in Israel.

Meanwhile, the child continued to grow and to become strong. He was filled with wisdom, and God's favor rested upon him.

When I was a child, I spoke like a child, thought like a child, and reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up my childish ways.

I am writing to you, fathers, because you have known the one who has existed from the beginning. I am writing to you, young people, because you have overcome the evil one. I have written to you, little children, because you have known the Father. I have written to you, fathers, because you have known the one who has existed from the beginning. I have written to you, young people, because you are strong and because God's word remains in you and you have overcome the evil one.

Like newborn babies, thirst for the pure milk of the word so that by it you may grow in your salvation.

Then we will no longer be little children, tossed like waves and blown about by every wind of doctrine, by people's trickery, or by clever strategies that would lead us astray.

"Take a census of the entire Israeli community, numbering them by their tribes and by ancestral houses. List the names of every male one-by-one, from 20 years and upward. You and Aaron are to register everyone in Israel who is able to go to war, company by company.