32 Bible Verses about Maturity, Physical

Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men.

The child Samuel grew both in stature and in goodness with Jehovah and also with men.

The child grew and became spiritually strong. He lived in the deserts till the time came to show himself to Israel.

The child grew and became strong. He was filled with wisdom and was blessed by God.

When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, and reason like a child. When I became an adult I did away with childish things.

Jehovah again spoke to Moses: When you take a census of the people of Israel, each man is to pay me a price for his life. This to insure that no disaster will come on him while the census is being taken. Everyone included in the census must pay the required amount of money. It should be weighed according to the official standard. Everyone must pay this as an offering to me.read more.
Every man being counted in the census who is twenty years old or older is to pay me this amount. The rich man is not to pay more. The poor man is not to pay less, when they pay this amount for their lives. Collect this money from the people of Israel and spend it for the upkeep of the tent of meeting. This tax will be the payment for their lives. I will remember to protect them.

Take a census of all the males of the congregation of Israel by families and households. List every man by name who is at least twenty years old. You and Aaron must register everyone in Israel who is eligible for military duty. List them by divisions.

Amaziah called the people of Judah together and assigned them by families to regiment and battalion commanders for all of Judah and Benjamin. He organized those who were at least twenty years old. He had three hundred thousand of the best men for the army, those who could handle a spear and a shield.

Your bodies will drop dead in this desert. All of you who are at least twenty years old, who were registered and listed, and who complained about me will die.

Jehovah said to Moses: Use the list of names from the census to divide the land these people will possess. Give more land to larger tribes and less land to smaller ones. Use the totals from the census in giving land to each tribe.

From the age of twenty-five each Levite shall perform his duties in the tent of my presence, They must retire from active service when they are fifty years old.

These were the descendants of Levi by their families, the heads of families as they were registered under their names and counted individually, that is, the workers twenty years old or more who served in the Temple of Jehovah.

The second year and third month of their coming to the house of God in Jerusalem Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, took charge of the construction. Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and the rest of their brothers the priests and the Levites, and all those who had come from the land where they were prisoners to Jerusalem: and the Levites, of twenty years or older, were responsible for overseeing the work of the house of Jehovah.

Is not wisdom found among the aged? Does not long life bring understanding?

The gray-haired and the aged are on our side, men even older than your father.

Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite answered: I am young in years, and you are aged; therefore I was timid and afraid to declare my opinion to you. I said: 'Let days speak, and many years teach wisdom.' But truly it is the spirit in a man, the breath of the Almighty that makes for understanding.read more.
It is not the old that are wise, nor the aged that understand what is right.

I saw among the simple ones, I discerned among the youth, a young man without understanding.

Show respect to the elderly, and honor older people. In this way you show respect for your God. I am Jehovah.

Elihu waited to speak to Job, because they were older than he.

Listen to your father who gave you life. Do not despise your mother when she is old.

Do not rebuke (censure) (criticize) an elder, but appeal to him as a father, the younger men as brothers. Treat the elder women as mothers, the younger as sisters, with much honor.

Likewise, you younger men, be subject to the older men. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility and serve one another. God resists the proud, but gives loving kindness to the humble.

By now Abraham was old, and Jehovah had blessed him in every way.

He will be a giver of new life to you. He will be your comforter when you are old, because your daughter-in-law, who in her love for you is better than seven sons, has given birth to him.

He died at a very old age, wealthy and respected, and his son Solomon succeeded him as king.

Thrust in the sickle for the harvest is ripe! Come and tread for the winepress is full and the vats overflow. Their wickedness is great.

Do you say there are four months until the harvest comes? I say to you lift up your eyes and look on the fields. They are already white for harvest. He who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for life eternal. Both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.

The Lord Jehovah showed me a basket of summer fruit. He said: Amos, what do you see? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then Jehovah said to me: The end has come to my people Israel. I will spare them no longer.

Jesus said to his disciples: The harvest is abundant, but the laborers are few. Pray that the Lord of the harvest will send out workers into his harvest.

The Lord appointed seventy disciples and sent them in groups of two into every city and place where he was about to go. He said to them: The harvest indeed is great but the laborers are few. Pray that the Master (Controller) (Lord) of the harvest will send laborers into his harvest.

He added: The kingdom of God is like this. A man plants seed in the earth. He sleeps and gets up night and day until the plants grow though he has no idea how. The earth gives fruit by itself. First comes the leaf, then the head, then full grain.read more.
When the grain is ready he immediately sends men to cut it, because the time for cutting has come.

Another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him who sat on the cloud: Thrust in your sickle, and reap! The time has come for you to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe.