27 Bible Verses about Change And Growth

And just as it is spreading through the whole world, bearing fruit and increasing, so also is it among you, from the day in which you heard it, and came truly to know the grace of God,

"Which one of you by being anxious is able to add even one cubit to his stature?

And we all, with unveiled faces, reflecting like a mirror the glory of the Lord, are ourselves continually being transformed into the same likeness, from glory to glory, as by the Lord, the Spirit.

and fortitude character, and character, hope??5 a hope which never disappoints us. For through the Holy Spirit who has given to us, the "brimming river of the love of God" has overflowed in our hearts.

that you may walk worthy of the Lord in every kind of pleasing; that you may be fruitful in every kind of good work, and may increase in the knowledge of God;

Brothers, do not become children in understanding; be babes in malice, but in understanding become mature men.

So we shall no longer be children, tossed up and down, and blown about by every wind of teaching, tricked by the craft of men in the snares of misleading error;

They will perish, but thou remainest; They all will grow old like a garment,

Like new-born babes long for the pure spiritual milk to make you grow up into salvation;

Let us all then, who are mature Christians, strive for this! God will make this clear to any of you who are striving for other goals;

So faith comes from a message heard, and the message comes from the teaching of Christ.

since you are rooted in him, and in him continually built up. Be firmly established in the faith as you were taught it, and continually abound in it with thanksgiving.

Grace and peace be multiplied to you by the God and Father of Jesus our Lord.

Foolish man! The seed you sow does not come to life unless it dies.

He who has ears, let him listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches. To him that overcomes I will give of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and upon the stone a new name written, which no man knows, but he that receives it.

For every one who feeds on milk is inexperienced in the word of righteousness. He is still an infant.

For this reason from the day I heard of it I have never ceased to pray for you, asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will with every kind of wisdom and spiritual insight;

And not only so, but we are actually exulting also even in our troubles; for we know that trouble works fortitude,

and in him you, too, are continuously built together for a dwelling-place of God through his Spirit.

But grow continually in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and unto the Day of Eternity, Amen.

You have learned to lay aside, with your former manner of living, the old self who was on his way to ruin, as he followed the desires which deceive;

This, then, is the message that we have heard from him, and are announcing to you, that God is light, and no darkness what ever is in him.

That is why God has given them up to passions of dishonor; for on the one hand their women actually changed the natural function of sex into that which is against nature;

And when you sow the seed you are not sowing the body that it will become, but bare grain, of wheat perhaps, or some other grain.

You are all sons of God through your faith in Jesus Christ.

"This is indeed the smallest of seeds, but when it is grown it is greater than any herb, and becomes a tree, so that the winged things of the sky come and roost in its branches."

Then lust conceives and gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is mature, brings forth death.