45 Bible Verses about Change And Growth

which has come to you, as indeed in the whole world it is bearing fruit and growing--as it also does among you, since the day you heard it and understood the grace of God in truth,

And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life?

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

and endurance produces character, and character produces hope,

so as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God.

"For there is hope for a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its shoots will not cease.

Brothers, do not be children in your thinking. Be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.

When the grass is gone and the new growth appears and the vegetation of the mountains is gathered,

so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes.

As you do not know the way the spirit comes to the bones in the womb of a woman with child, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything.

they will perish, but you remain; they will all wear out like a garment,

Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation--

Let those of us who are mature think this way, and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal that also to you.

The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever.

with the choicest fruits of the sun and the rich yield of the months,

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

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

A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth remains forever.

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

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

"Shower, O heavens, from above, and let the clouds rain down righteousness; let the earth open, that salvation and righteousness may bear fruit; let the earth cause them both to sprout; I the LORD have created it.

that the next generation might know them, the children yet unborn, and arise and tell them to their children,

You visit the earth and water it; you greatly enrich it; the river of God is full of water; you provide their grain, for so you have prepared it.

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

Let the wise hear and increase in learning, and the one who understands obtain guidance,

for everyone who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is a child.

And so, from the day we heard, 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,

until the Spirit is poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is deemed a forest.

More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance,

In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit.

I will open rivers on the bare heights, and fountains in the midst of the valleys. I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.

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.

to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires,

You water its furrows abundantly, settling its ridges, softening it with showers, and blessing its growth.

in the morning it flourishes and is renewed; in the evening it fades and withers.

Your clothing did not wear out on you and your foot did not swell these forty years.

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

"For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return there but water the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater,

But you, Daniel, shut up the words and seal the book, until the time of the end. Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase."

For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature;

And what you sow is not the body that is to be, but a bare kernel, perhaps of wheat or of some other grain.

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

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

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

I will be like the dew to Israel; he shall blossom like the lily; he shall take root like the trees of Lebanon;