56 Bible Verses about Growing

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Colossians 1:6

that has come to you. Just as it is bearing fruit and spreading all over the world, so it has been doing among you from the day you heard it and came to know the grace of God in truth.

1 Corinthians 3:7

So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is significant, but God, who keeps everything growing, is the one who matters.

1 Samuel 2:26

But they would not follow the advice of their father; for the LORD wanted to put them to death. But the boy Samuel continued to grow both physically and in favor with the LORD and the people.

2 Corinthians 10:15

We are not boasting about work done by others that cannot be evaluated. On the contrary, we cherish the hope that your faith may continue to grow and enlarge our sphere of action among you until it overflows.

Ecclesiastes 11:5

Just as you do not understand the way of the spirit in the womb of a pregnant mother, so also you do not know what God is doing in everything he makes.

Matthew 13:30

Let both grow together until the harvest, and at harvest time I will tell the reapers, "Gather the weeds first and tie them in bundles for burning, but bring the wheat into my barn."'"

Mark 4:27

He sleeps and gets up night and day while the seeds sprout and grow, although he doesn't know how

Psalm 104:14

He causes grass to sprout for the cattle and plants for people to cultivate, to produce food from the land,

Ephesians 2:21

In union with him the whole building is joined together and rises into a holy sanctuary for the Lord.

Psalm 144:12

May our sons in their youth be like full-grown plants, and our daughters like pillars destined to decorate a palace.

Judges 16:22

But the hair on his head began to grow again after it had been shaved off.

2 Peter 1:8

For if you possess these qualities, and if they continue to increase among you, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in attaining a full knowledge of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah.

Psalm 129:6

May they become like a tuft of grass on a roof top, that withers before it takes root

Job 14:7

"There is hope for the tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its shoots won't stop growing.

Hebrews 11:24

By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be called a son of Pharaoh's daughter,

Isaiah 61:11

For just as the soil brings forth its shoots, and as a garden makes what is sown within it spring up, so the LORD God will make righteousness and praise spring up before all the nations for Zion's sake."

Ezekiel 31:4

Abundant water made it great, Subterranean rivers made it grow. Rivers surrounded the area where it had been planted, and water channels nourished all the trees in the fields.

Mark 4:8

But others fell on good soil and produced a crop. They grew up, increased in size, and produced 30, 60, or 100 times what was sown."

Luke 12:27

Consider how the lilies grow. They don't work or spin yarn, but I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was clothed like one of them.

Proverbs 24:31

There it was, overgrown with thistles, the ground covered with thorns, its stone wall collapsed.

Psalm 132:17

There I will create a power base for David I have prepared a lamp for my anointed one.

Acts 19:20

In that way the word of the Lord kept spreading and triumphing.

Hebrews 8:13

In speaking of a "new" covenant, he has made the first one obsolete, and what is obsolete and aging will soon disappear.

Psalm 84:7

They will walk from strength to strength; each will appear before God in Zion.

Luke 8:6

Others fell on stony ground, and as soon as they came up, they dried up because they had no moisture.

Ecclesiastes 12:3

when that day comes, the palace guards will tremble, strong men will stoop down, women grinders will cease because they are few, and the sight of those who peer through the lattice will grow dim.

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Genesis 21:8

The child grew and eventually was weaned, so Abraham threw a tremendous banquet on the very day Isaac was weaned.

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Psalm 144:12

May our sons in their youth be like full-grown plants, and our daughters like pillars destined to decorate a palace.

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