45 Bible Verses about Change And Growth

that has come to you. It is bearing fruit and growing all over the world, just as it has among you since the day you heard it and recognized God’s grace in the truth.

Can any of you add a single cubit to his height by worrying?

We all, with unveiled faces, are looking as in a mirror at the glory of the Lord and are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory; this is from the Lord who is the Spirit.

endurance produces proven character, and proven character produces hope.

so that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to Him, bearing fruit in every good work and growing in the knowledge of God.

There is hope for a tree:
If it is cut down, it will sprout again,
and its shoots will not die.

Brothers, don’t be childish in your thinking, but be infants in regard to evil and adult in your thinking.

When hay is removed and new growth appears
and the grain from the hills is gathered in,

Then we will no longer be little children, tossed by the waves and blown around by every wind of teaching, by human cunning with cleverness in the techniques of deceit.

Just as you don’t know the path of the wind,
or how bones develop in the womb of a pregnant woman,
so you don’t know the work of God who makes everything.

they will perish, but You remain.
They will all wear out like clothing;

Like newborn infants, desire the pure spiritual milk, so that you may grow by it for your salvation,

Therefore, all who are mature should think this way. And if you think differently about anything, God will reveal this also to you.

The grass withers, the flowers fade,
but the word of our God remains forever.”

with the bountiful harvest from the sun
and the abundant yield of the seasons;

So faith comes from what is heard, and what is heard comes through the message about Christ.

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

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

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

Foolish one! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.

“Heavens, sprinkle from above,
and let the skies shower righteousness.
Let the earth open up
so that salvation will sprout
and righteousness will spring up with it.
I, Yahweh, have created it.

so that a future generation—
children yet to be born—might know.
They were to rise and tell their children

You visit the earth and water it abundantly,
enriching it greatly.
God’s stream is filled with water,
for You prepare the earth in this way,
providing people with grain.

“Anyone who has an ear should listen to what the Spirit says to the churches. I will give the victor some of the hidden manna. I will also give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name is inscribed that no one knows except the one who receives it.

a wise man will listen and increase his learning,
and a discerning man will obtain guidance—

Now everyone who lives on milk is inexperienced with the message about righteousness, because he is an infant.

For this reason also, since the day we heard this, we haven’t stopped praying for you. We are asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,

until the Spirit from heaven is poured out on us.
Then the desert will become an orchard,
and the orchard will seem like a forest.

And not only that, but we also rejoice in our afflictions, because we know that affliction produces endurance,

You also are being built together for God’s dwelling in the Spirit.

I will open rivers on the barren heights,
and springs in the middle of the plains.
I will turn the desert into a pool of water
and dry land into 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.

You took off your former way of life, the old self that is corrupted by deceitful desires;

You soften it with showers and bless its growth,
soaking its furrows and leveling its ridges.

in the morning it sprouts and grows;
by evening it withers and dries up.

Your clothing did not wear out, and your feet did not swell these 40 years.

Now this is the message we have heard from Him and declare to you: God is light, and there is absolutely no darkness in Him.

For just as rain and snow fall from heaven
and do not return there
without saturating the earth
and making it germinate and sprout,
and providing seed to sow
and food to eat,

“But you, Daniel, keep these words secret and seal the book until the time of the end. Many will roam about, and knowledge will increase.”

This is why God delivered them over to degrading passions. For even their females exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones.

And as for what you sow—you are not sowing the future body, but only a seed, perhaps of wheat or another grain.

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

It’s the smallest of all the seeds, but when grown, it’s taller than the vegetables and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the sky come and nest in its branches.”

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

I will be like the dew to Israel;
he will blossom like the lily
and take root like the cedars of Lebanon.