27 Bible Verses about Change And Growth

which has come to you, just as in all the world it is bearing fruit and growing, even as it has been doing among you since the day you heard it and understood the grace of God in truth;

Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his span of life?

And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into his likeness from one degree of glory to another, for this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.

and perseverance, character; and character, hope.

so that you will live a life worthy of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God.

Brethren, do not be children in your thinking; be infants in evil, but in thinking be mature.

As a result, we are no longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the cunning of men, by their craftiness in deceitful scheming.

they will perish, but you remain; they will all grow old like a garment,

Like newborn babes, long for the pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation,

Let those of us who are mature have this attitude; and if in anything you have a different attitude, God will reveal that also to you.

So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.

rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, overflowing with thanksgiving.

grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.

You foolish man! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes I will give some of the hidden manna. And I will give him a white stone, with a new name written on the stone which no one knows except him who receives it.'

for every one who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe.

For this reason also, since the day we heard it, we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

And not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces perseverance;

in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling of God in the Spirit.

But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.

You were taught, with regard to your former manner of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful lusts;

This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you, that God is light and in him is no darkness at all.

For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural.

And that which you sow, you do not sow the body which is to be, but a bare grain, perhaps of wheat or of something else.

For you are all sons of God, through faith in Christ Jesus.

it is the smallest of all seeds, but when it has grown it is the greatest of shrubs and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and make nests in its branches."

Then when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and when sin is full-grown, it brings forth death.