27 Bible Verses about Change And Growth

Bearing fruit and growing, as it does, through all the world, just as it did among you, from the very day that you heard of God's loving-kindness, and understood what that loving-kindness really is.

But which of you, by being anxious, can prolong his life a single moment?

And all of us, with faces from which the veil is lifted, seeing, as if reflected in a mirror, the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into his likeness, from glory to glory, as it is given by the Lord, the Spirit.

For we know that trouble develops endurance, and endurance strength of character, and strength of character hope,

Then you will live lives worthy of the Master, and so please God in every way. Your lives will be fruitful in every kind of good action, and your characters will grow through a fuller knowledge of God;

Brothers, do not show yourselves children in understanding. In wickedness be infants, but in understanding show yourselves men.

Then we shall no longer be like infants, tossed backward and forward, blown about by every breath of human teaching, through the trickery and the craftiness of men, towards the snares of error;

They shall perish, but thou remainest; As a garment they shall all grow old;

like newly born infants, crave pure spiritual milk, so that you may be enabled by it to grow till you attain Salvation--

Let all of us, then, whose faith is mature, think thus. Then, if on any matter you think otherwise, God will make that also plain to you.

And so we gather, faith is a result of teaching, and the teaching comes in the Message of Christ.

Rooted in him, building up your characters through union with him, growing stronger through your faith, as you were taught, overflowing with faith and thanksgiving.

May blessing and peace be yours in ever-increasing measure, as you advance in the knowledge of God and of Jesus, our Lord.

You foolish man! The seed you yourself sow does not come to life, unless it dies!

Let him who has ears hear what the Spirit is saying to the Churches. To him who conquers-- to him I will give a share of the mystic manna, and I will give him a white stone; and on the stone shall be inscribed a new name, which no one knows except him who receives it."

For every one who still has to take 'milk' knows nothing of the Teaching of Righteousness; he is a mere infant.

And therefore we, from the very day that we heard this, have never ceased praying for you, or asking that you may possess that deeper knowledge of the will of God, which comes through all true spiritual wisdom and insight.

And not only that, but let us also exult in our troubles;

And, through union in him, you also are being built up together, to be a dwelling-place for God through the Spirit.

and advance in the love and knowledge of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. All glory be to him now and for ever.

For you learned with regard to your former way of living that you must cast off your old nature, which, yielding to deluding passions, grows corrupt;

These, then, are the Tidings that we have heard from him and now tell you-- 'God is Light, and Darkness has no place at all in him.'

That, I say, is why God abandoned them to degrading passions. Even the women among them perverted the natural use of their bodies to the unnatural;

And when you sow, you sow not the body that will be, but a mere grain-perhaps of wheat, or something else.

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

This seed is smaller than all other seeds, but, when it has grown up, it is larger than the herbs and becomes a tree, so that 'the wild birds come and roost in its branches.'"

Then Passion conceives and gives birth to Sin, and Sin, on reaching maturity, brings forth Death.