26 Bible Verses about Change And Growth

which has reached you as it spreads over all the world with fruit and increase. Such has been your life from the day you learned to know what God's grace really is.

Which of you can add an ell to his height by troubling about it?

But we all mirror the glory of the Lord with face unveiled, and so we are being transformed into the same likeness as himself, passing from one glory to another ??for this comes of the Lord the Spirit.

endurance produces character, and character produces hope ??5 a hope which never disappoints us, since God's love floods our hearts through the holy Spirit which has been given to us.

so that you may lead a life that is worthy of the Lord and give him entire satisfaction. May you be fruitful and increase in the doing of all good, as you thus know God!

Brothers, do not be children in the sphere of intelligence; in evil be mere infants, but be mature in your intelligence.

they will perish, but thou remainest, they will all be worn out like a garment,

Like newly-born children, thirst for the pure, spiritual milk to make you grow up to salvation.

For all those of our number who are mature, this must be the point of view; God will reveal that to any of you who look at things differently.

(You see, faith must come from what is heard, and what is heard comes from word of Christ.)

fixed and founded in him, confirmed in the faith as you have been taught it, and overflowing with thankfulness to God.

grace and peace be multiplied to you by the knowledge of our Lord.

Foolish man! What you sow never comes to life unless it dies.

Let anyone who has an ear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches: 'The conqueror I will allow to share the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone inscribed with a new name, unknown to any except him who receives it.'

(For anyone who is fed on milk is unskilled in moral truth; he is a mere babe.

Hence, from the day we heard of it, we have never ceased to pray for you, asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and insight,

Not only so, but we triumph even in our troubles, knowing that trouble produces endurance,

and in him you are yourselves built into this to form a habitation for God in the Spirit.

but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and saviour Jesus Christ. To him be the glory now and to the day of eternity: Amen.

you must lay aside the old nature which belonged to your former course of life, that nature which crumbles to ruin under the passions of moral deceit,

Here is the message we learned from him and announce to you: 'God is light and in him there is no darkness, none.'

That is why God has given them up to vile passions; their women have exchanged the natural function of sex for what is unnatural,

And what you sow is not the body that is to be; it is a mere grain of wheat, for example, or some other seed.

you are all sons of God by your faith in Christ Jesus

It is less than any seed on earth, but when it grows up it is larger than any plant, it becomes a tree, so large that the wild birds come and roost in its branches."

then Desire conceives and breeds Sin, while Sin matures and gives birth to Death.