69 Bible Verses about Growth

till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, that we may be no longer children, driven about like waves and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the art of men, and the craftiness of deceitful wiles, but speaking the truth with love we may grow to him in all things, who is the head, Christ;

And I, brothers, was not able to speak to you as spiritual, but as carnal, as babes in Christ. I have fed you milk, not solid food; for you were not yet able; but you are not able even now;

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child, I reasoned as a child; when I became a man I put away childish things.

Brothers, be not children in understanding, but in malice be children, and in understanding be perfect men.

For you who ought on account of the time to be teachers, have need that one should teach you again what are the first rudiments of the oracles of God, and have need of milk and not solid food. For every one that partakes of milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe; but solid food is for the perfect, having their perceptive faculties exercised by practice to distinguish both good and evil.

as new born babes desire earnestly the pure milk of the word, that you may grow by it to salvation,

and that which fell among thorns signifies those who hear, and going away are choked by cares and riches and the pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection. But that on the good ground signifies those who, with a noble and good heart, hearing the word retain it, and bear fruit persistently.

And he that received seed among thorns is he that hears the word, and the cares of this life and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful. But he that received the seed in the good ground is he that hears the word, and understands it, who also bears fruit, and produces some one hundred, and some sixty, and some thirty-fold.

and the cares of life, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the desires of other things coming in, choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful. And these are those sown in good ground, who hear the word, and receive it, and bear fruit, one thirty, and one sixty, and one a hundred.

And may he that supplies seed to the sower and bread for eating multiply your grain, and increase the products of your righteousness;

For we rejoice when we are weak and you are strong; and we desire this, your perfection.

whom we preach, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ;

Epaphras, who is of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, salutes you, always striving for you in prayers that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.

not boasting of things unmeasured in the labors of others, but having a hope, your faith being increased, that we shall be magnified among you according to our rule abundantly, to preach the gospel in the parts beyond you, not to boast of things prepared by another's rule.

We ought to thank God always for you, brothers, as is fit, because your faith increases greatly, and the love of every one of you all one for another abounds,

but grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever.

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him; the eyes of your minds being enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his call, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

that he would grant to you according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inward man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts through the faith, you being founded and established in love, that you may be able to apprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length, and depth and height,read more.
and to know the love of Christ which exceeds knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

that you may walk worthily of the Lord in all that is pleasing [to him], being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God;

As his divine power has given us all things which pertain to life and piety, through the knowledge of him that has called us to his own glory and virtue,

for you also do the same to all the brothers in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brothers, to abound still more,

And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all understanding,

and the Lord cause you to be full and abound with love one to another and to all men, as we also to you,

and to piety brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love. For if these are in you and abound, they will make you not inactive nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ;

and not holding the head, from which all the body being supplied and compacted by means of joints and tendons grows with an increase of God.

I planted, Apollos watered, but God caused [the seed] to grow; so neither is he that plants any thing, nor he that waters, but God that causes it to grow.

having this same confidence, that he who has begun a good work in you will carry it on till the day of Jesus Christ,

Laying aside therefore all malice and all deceit and hypocrisies and envies and all evil speakings,

For if you live according to the flesh, you shall die; but if by the spirit you kill the deeds of the body, you shall live. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God they are sons of God.

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us purify ourselves from every defilement of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

And the [subjects] of Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its affections and desires.

that you should lay aside your former mode of life the old man destroyed by deceitful desires, and be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and put on the new man, created after God in righteousness and true holiness.

Put to death, therefore, your members which are on the earth, fornication, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness which is idolatry, for which comes the wrath of God. In which also you walked formerly when you lived in them;read more.
but now do you put away also all these, anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, vile conversation out of your mouth; lie not one to another; put off the old man with his doings, and put on the new man, renewed in knowledge in the likeness of him that created him,

Wherefore leaving the account of the beginning of Christ, let us go on to perfection, not laying again the foundation of a change of mind from dead works, and of faith in God, of baptisms taught, and the imposition of hands, and of the resurrection of the dead, and of the eternal judgment.

Concerning whom we have much to say, and that which is difficult to explain, because you have become dull of hearing. For you who ought on account of the time to be teachers, have need that one should teach you again what are the first rudiments of the oracles of God, and have need of milk and not solid food. For every one that partakes of milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe;read more.
but solid food is for the perfect, having their perceptive faculties exercised by practice to distinguish both good and evil.

I EXHORT you, therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice; holy, well pleasing to God, your reasonable service;

But let patience have a perfect work, that you may be perfect and entire, lacking in nothing.

And so, my beloved, as you always obeyed, not in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your salvation with fear and trembling;

Not that I have already obtained it, or have been already made perfect; but I follow on that I may attain that for which also I was arrested by Christ.

and for the same purpose also, giving all diligence add to your faith virtue, and to virtue knowledge, and to knowledge temperance, and to temperance patience, and to patience piety, and to piety brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love.read more.
For if these are in you and abound, they will make you not inactive nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ;

And he gave some apostles, and some prophets, and some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edification of the body of Christ,

Cherish love, and be earnestly desirous of spiritual gifts, but rather that you may prophesy. For he that speaks with a tongue speaks not to men but to God; for no one understands him, but in spirit he speaks mysteries; but he that prophesies speaks to men to edification and exhortation and consolation.read more.
He that speaks with a tongue edifies himself; but he that prophesies edifies an assembly. I wish you all to speak with tongues, but rather that you should prophesy; and he that prophesies is greater than he that speaks with tongues, unless he interprets, that the assembly may receive edification.

till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, that we may be no longer children, driven about like waves and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the art of men, and the craftiness of deceitful wiles, but speaking the truth with love we may grow to him in all things, who is the head, Christ;read more.
by whom all the body being joined together and compacted by the supply of every joint, according to the proportionate operation of every part, makes increase of the body to the edification of itself in love.

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

And the child grew, and became strong in spirit, and was in the wilderness till the day of his manifestation to Israel.

But Saul increased in power and confounded the Jews living at Damascus, proving that this is the Christ.

which is present with you as also in all the world, and is fruitful and increases, as also with you, from the day that you heard and knew the grace of God in truth;

He delivered them another parable, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed which a man took and sowed in his field, which is the least of all seeds, but when it is grown is the greatest of plants, and becomes a tree, so that the birds of heaven come and lodge on its branches. He spoke another parable to them; The kingdom of heaven is like leaven which a woman took and hid in three sata [33 quarts] of flour, till the whole was leavened.

And he said, To what shall I liken the kingdom of God? or with what parable shall I present it? It is like a mustard seed, which when sown in the earth is the least of all seeds on the earth; but when sown, it comes up, and becomes the greatest of all plants, and produces great branches, so that the birds of heaven can dwell under its shade.

And he said, What is the kingdom of God like? and to what shall I liken it? It is like a mustard seed which a man took and cast into his garden; and it grew and became a great tree, and the birds of heaven lodged in its branches. Again he said, To what shall I liken the kingdom of God?read more.
It is like leaven which a woman took and hid in three sata [33 quarts] of flour, till the whole was leavened.

And he said, So is the kingdom of God as a man casts the seeds into the earth, and sleeps and wakes, night and day, and the seed germinates, and grows he knows not how. The earth produces spontaneously, first the stalk, then the head, then the full wheat in the head.read more.
And when the wheat delivers itself, he immediately sends out the sickle, because the harvest has come.

But many of those that heard the word believed, and the number of the men became about five thousand.

Then those that received his word were baptized, and there were added on that day about three thousand souls;

and believers were added the more to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women;

And the word of God increased, and the number of the disciples was greatly multiplied at Jerusalem, and a great multitude of the priests obeyed the faith.

Then had the church peace in all Judea and Galilee and Samaria, and being built up, and walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, they were multiplied.

And the hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number believed and turned to the Lord.

And at Iconium they went together into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spoke that a great multitude of the Jews and Greeks believed.

Then the churches were strengthened in the faith, and increased in number daily.