56 Bible Verses about Growing

Brethren, do not be children in your thinking; yet in evil be infants, but in your thinking be mature.

in the day that the watchmen of the house tremble, and mighty men stoop, the grinding ones stand idle because they are few, and those who look through windows grow dim;

Do not love sleep, or you will become poor;
Open your eyes, and you will be satisfied with food.

Other seed fell on rocky soil, and as soon as it grew up, it withered away, because it had no moisture.

They go from strength to strength,
Every one of them appears before God in Zion.

When He said, “A new covenant,” He has made the first obsolete. But whatever is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to disappear.

Because lawlessness is increased, most people’s love will grow cold.

Now I say, as long as the heir is a child, he does not differ at all from a slave although he is owner of everything,

like newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the word, so that by it you may grow in respect to salvation,

So the word of the Lord was growing mightily and prevailing.

“Why do the wicked still live,
Continue on, also become very powerful?

“There I will cause the horn of David to spring forth;
I have prepared a lamp for Mine anointed.

And behold, it was completely overgrown with thistles;
Its surface was covered with nettles,
And its stone wall was broken down.

Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; but I tell you, not even Solomon in all his glory clothed himself like one of these.

Train up a child in the way he should go,
Even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Other seeds fell into the good soil, and as they grew up and increased, they yielded a crop and produced thirty, sixty, and a hundredfold.”

‘The waters made it grow, the deep made it high.
With its rivers it continually extended all around its planting place,
And sent out its channels to all the trees of the field.

We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brethren, as is only fitting, because your faith is greatly enlarged, and the love of each one of you toward one another grows ever greater;

For as the earth brings forth its sprouts,
And as a garden causes the things sown in it to spring up,
So the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise
To spring up before all the nations.

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

Then when lust has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and when sin is accomplished, it brings forth death.

“For there is hope for a tree,
When it is cut down, that it will sprout again,
And its shoots will not fail.

Let them be like grass upon the housetops,
Which withers before it grows up;

For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they render you neither useless nor unfruitful in the true knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

However, the hair of his head began to grow again after it was shaved off.

Let our sons in their youth be as grown-up plants,
And our daughters as corner pillars fashioned as for a palace;

Do not be afraid when a man becomes rich,
When the glory of his house is increased;

in whom the whole building, being fitted together, is growing into a holy temple in the Lord,

from whom the whole body, being fitted and held together by what every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love.

And the child continued to grow and to become strong in spirit, and he lived in the deserts until the day of his public appearance to Israel.

I planted, Apollos watered, but God was causing the growth.

He causes the grass to grow for the cattle,
And vegetation for the labor of man,
So that he may bring forth food from the earth,

and he goes to bed at night and gets up by day, and the seed sprouts and grows—how, he himself does not know.

and not holding fast to the head, from whom the entire body, being supplied and held together by the joints and ligaments, grows with a growth which is from God.

until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ.

Allow both to grow together until the harvest; and in the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers, “First gather up the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them up; but gather the wheat into my barn.”’”

He must increase, but I must decrease.

So the churches were being strengthened in the faith, and were increasing in number daily.

Just as you do not know the path of the wind and how bones are formed in the womb of the pregnant woman, so you do not know the activity of God who makes all things.

not boasting beyond our measure, that is, in other men’s labors, but with the hope that as your faith grows, we will be, within our sphere, enlarged even more by you,

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment,

Now the boy Samuel was growing in stature and in favor both with the Lord and with men.

So then neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but God who causes the growth.

which has come to you, just as in all the world also it is constantly bearing fruit and increasing, even as it has been doing in you also since the day you heard of it and understood the grace of God in truth;

The Child continued to grow and become strong, increasing in wisdom; and the grace of God was upon Him.

And Jesus kept increasing in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men.

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of Him.

and may the Lord cause you to increase and abound in love for one another, and for all people, just as we also do for you;

so that you will walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, to please Him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God;

but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory, both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.