34 Bible Verses about Progress

And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord,are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.

Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ,

Yet the righteous holds to his way, and he who has clean hands grows stronger and stronger.

Blessed are those whose strength is in you, in whose heart are the highways to Zion.

The righteous flourish like the palm tree and grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, which shines brighter and brighter until full day.

For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.

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

For by you I can run against a troop, and by my God I can leap over a wall.

Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it. Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air.read more.
But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.

Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

and may the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all, as we do for you,

We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers, as is right, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing.

Practice these things, immerse yourself in them, so that all may see your progress.

Therefore let us leave the elementary doctrine of Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God,

Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation--

For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.read more.
For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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.

For we have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end.

and you will be hated by all for my name's sake. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.

And you will be hated by all for my name's sake. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.

But the one who endures to the end will be saved.

Though we speak in this way, yet in your case, beloved, we feel sure of better things--things that belong to salvation. For God is not unjust so as to overlook your work and the love that you have shown for his name in serving the saints, as you still do. And we desire each one of you to show the same earnestness to have the full assurance of hope until the end,

And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

He put another parable before them, saying, "The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his field. It is the smallest of all seeds, but when it has grown it is larger than all the garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and make nests in its branches."

And he said, "With what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable shall we use for it? It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when sown on the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth, yet when it is sown it grows up and becomes larger than all the garden plants and puts out large branches, so that the birds of the air can make nests in its shade."

He said therefore, "What is the kingdom of God like? And to what shall I compare it? It is like a grain of mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his garden, and it grew and became a tree, and the birds of the air made nests in its branches."

from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.

praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to their number day by day those who were being saved.

But many of those who had heard the word believed, and the number of the men came to about five thousand.

And more than ever believers were added to the Lord, multitudes of both men and women,

And the word of God continued to increase, and the number of the disciples multiplied greatly in Jerusalem, and a great many of the priests became obedient to the faith.

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