32 Bible Verses about Maturity, Physical

And, Jesus, went on advancing in wisdom, and in stature, and in favour with God and men.

But, the boy Samuel, went on growing in stature, and in favour, - both with Yahweh, and also with men.

And, the child, went on growing, and being strengthened in spirit, and was in the deserts, until the day he was pointed out unto Israel.

And, the child, went on growing, and waxing strong, becoming filled with wisdom; and, the favour of God, was upon it.

When I was a child, I used to speak as a child, to prefer as child, to reason as a child: now I have become a man, I have laid aside the things of the child!

Then spake Yahweh unto Moses, saying - When thou takest the sum of the sons of Israel, by their numberings, then shall they give every man a propitiatory-covering for his soul to Yahweh, when they are numbered, - that there may be among them no plague when they are numbered. This, shall they give - every one that passeth over to them that have been numbered - a half-shekel by the shekel of the sanctuary, - the shekel is twenty gerahs - the half-shekel, shalt be a heave-offering to Yahweh.read more.
All who pass over to the numbered, from twenty years old and upwards, shall give the heave-offering of Yahweh. The rich, shall not give more, and the poor, shall not give less, than the half-shekel, - when they give the heave-offering of Yahweh, to put a propitiatory-covering over your souls. So then thou shalt take the silver for the propitiatory-coverings from the sons of Israel, and shalt expend it upon the service of the tent of meeting, - thus shall it be for the sons of Israel as a memorial before Yahweh, to put a propitiatory-covering over your souls.

Reckon ye up the sum of all the assembly of the sons of Israel, by their families by their ancestral houses, - in the counting of names, every male, by their polls; from twenty years old and upwards, every one able to go forth to war in Israel, - ye shall number them by their hosts, thou and Aaron;

And Amaziah gathered Judah together, and appointed them by their ancestral houses, as rulers of thousands and as rulers of hundreds, for all Judah and Benjamin, - and he numbered them, from twenty years old and upwards, and found them three hundred thousand choice men, able to go forth to war, who could grasp spear and shield.

In this desert, shall your dead bodies fall And none of you who were numbered in all your counting, from twenty years old and upwards, - who have murmured against me,

Unto these, shall be apportioned the land as an inheritance by the number of names. For the large one, thou shalt make large his inheritance, and for the small one, thou shalt make small his inheritance, - unto each one, in proportion to them who were numbered of him, shall he given his inheritance.

This is what concerneth the Levites, - from twenty-five years old and upwards, shall they enter to take rank in the host, for doing the laborious work of the tent of meeting; but from the age of fifty years, shall they retire from taking rank in the labour, and shall do laborious work no more;

These, were the sons of Levi by their ancestral house, the ancestral chiefs of them who were counted in the number of their names, by their polls, doing the work, for the service of the house of Yahweh, - from twenty years old, and upwards.

Now, in the second year of their coming in unto the house of God, to Jerusalem, in the second month, began Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and Jeshua son of Jozadak and the rest of their brethren - the priests and the Levites, and all that were come out of the captivity to Jerusalem, and stationed the Levites, of twenty years old and upwards, to preside over the work of the house of Yahweh.

In the Ancient, is wisdom, and in Length of Days, understanding:

Both hoary and venerable, are among us, one mightier than thy father in days!

So then Elihu, son of Barachel, the Buzite, responded and said: - Young, am I, whereas, ye, are aged, For this cause, I faltered, and feared - to shew my knowledge unto you: I said, Days, should speak, - and, the multitude of years, should make known wisdom. Yet surely, there is a spirit in men, and, the inspiration of the Almighty, giveth them understanding;read more.
Great men, may not be wise, nor, elders, understand justice.

And saw among the simple ones, discerned among the youths, A young man lacking sense;

Before a hoary head, shalt thou rise up, And shalt honour the presence of an elder, - So shalt thou stand in awe of thy God - I, am Yahweh.

But, Elihu, had waited for Job with words, because the others were older than he.

Hearken to thy father here, who begat thee, and despise not, when she is old, thy mother.

An elderly man, do not thou reprimand, but beseech him, as though he were thy father, - younger men, as brothers, Elderly women, as mothers, younger women, as sisters, in all chastity.

In like manner, ye younger men - submit yourselves unto elders; - All, however, one towards another, gird on humility; because, God, against the haughty, arrayeth himself, whereas, unto the lowly, he giveth favour.

Now, Abraham, was old, far gone in days, - and, Yahweh, had blessed Abraham, in all things.

So shall he become a restorer of thy life, and a nourisher of thine old age, - for, thy daughter-in-law who loveth thee, hath borne him, even, she, who is better to thee than seven sons.

And he died in a good old age, satisfied with days, riches and honour, - and Solomon his son reigned in his stead.

Thrust ye in the vintage knife, for, grown ripe, is the vintage, - Go in, tread down, for full is the winepress, flow over do the vats, for abundant is their wickedness.

Are, ye, not saying - Yet, a fourmonth, it is, and, the harvest, cometh? Lo! I say unto you - Lift up your eyes, and gaze at the fields, - that, white, are they unto, harvest. Already, he that reapeth, receiveth, a reward, and gathereth fruit unto life age-abiding; that, he that soweth, together may rejoice, with him that reapeth.

Here, My Lord, Yahweh, gave me to see, - and lo! there was a basket of summer fruit. So then he said, What canst thou see, Amos? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said Yahweh unto me, The end hath come unto my people Israel, I will not again any more forgive them;

Then, saith he unto his disciples, The harvest, indeed, is great, but, the labourers, few; Beg ye, therefore, of the Lord of the harvest, - That he would thrust forth labourers, into his harvest.

And, after these things, the Lord appointed seventy two others, and sent them forth, two and two before his face, into every city and place whither, he himself, was about to come. And he was saying unto them - The harvest, indeed, is, great, but, the labourers, few; beg ye, therefore, of the Lord of the harvest, that he would thrust forth, labourers, into his harvest.

And he was saying - Thus, is the kingdom of God: As a man may cast seed upon the earth, and be sleeping and rising, night and day, - and the seed be sprouting, and lengthening itself, - how, he, knoweth not: of itself, the earth beareth fruit, - first, a blade, afterwards, an ear, after that, full corn in the ear;read more.
but, as soon as the fruit yieldeth itself up, straightway, he sendeth forth the sickle, because standing by is the harvest. -

And, another messenger, came forth out of the sanctuary, crying out with a loud voice, unto him that was sitting upon the cloud - Thrust in thy sickle, and reap; because the hour to reap is come, because the harvest of the earth is ripe.