20 Bible Verses about Growing Up

The child grew and was weaned. Abraham prepared a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.

When the boys grew up, Esau became a skilled hunter, a man of the open fields, but Jacob was an even-tempered man, living in tents.

When the child grew older she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, saying, "Because I drew him from the water."

In those days, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his people and observed their hard labor, and he saw an Egyptian man attacking a Hebrew man, one of his own people.

Manoah's wife gave birth to a son and named him Samson. The child grew and the Lord empowered him.

surely you would not want to wait until they were old enough to marry! Surely you would not remain unmarried all that time! No, my daughters, you must not return with me. For my intense suffering is too much for you to bear. For the Lord is afflicting me!"

Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, "Live as a widow in your father's house until Shelah my son grows up." For he thought, "I don't want him to die like his brothers." So Tamar went and lived in her father's house.

So she removed her widow's clothes and covered herself with a veil. She wrapped herself and sat at the entrance to Enaim which is on the way to Timnah. (She did this because she saw that she had not been given to Shelah as a wife, even though he had now grown up.)

He sprouted up like a twig before God, like a root out of parched soil; he had no stately form or majesty that might catch our attention, no special appearance that we should want to follow him.

I made you plentiful like sprouts in a field; you grew tall and came of age so that you could wear jewelry. Your breasts had formed and your hair had grown, but you were still naked and bare.

Their young grow strong, and grow up in the open; they go off, and do not return to them.

From one of them came a small horn. But it grew to be very big, toward the south and the east and toward the beautiful land.

God was with the boy as he grew. He lived in the wilderness and became an archer.

So the Lord graciously attended to Hannah, and she was able to conceive and gave birth to three sons and two daughters. The boy Samuel grew up at the Lord's sanctuary.

Now the boy Samuel was growing up and finding favor both with the Lord and with people.

Samuel continued to grow, and the Lord was with him. None of his prophecies fell to the ground unfulfilled.

And the child kept growing and becoming strong in spirit, and he was in the wilderness until the day he was revealed to Israel.

And the child grew and became strong, filled with wisdom, and the favor of God was upon him.

And Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature, and in favor with God and with people.