'Growing' in the Bible

and had undergone many different treatments under a number of doctors and had spent all she had without receiving benefit but on the contrary growing worse,

Another part drops upon the rock, and after growing up it withers away for want of moisture.

And He gave them the following parable. "A man," He said, "who had a fig-tree growing in his garden came to look for fruit on it and could find none.

So the Churches went on gaining a stronger faith and growing in numbers from day to day.

And, without growing weak in faith, he could contemplate his own vital powers which had now decayed--for he was nearly 100 years old--and Sarah's barrenness.

in union with whom the whole fabric, fitted and closely joined together, is growing so as to form a holy sanctuary in the Lord;

and as for you, may the Lord teach you to love one another and all men, with a growing and a glowing love, resembling our love for you.

Unceasing thanks are due from us to God on your behalf, brethren. They are appropriate because your faith is growing greatly, and the love of every one of you for all the others goes on increasing.

Yet a woman will be brought safely through childbirth if she and her husband continue to live in faith and love and growing holiness, with habitual self-restraint.

Habitually practise these duties, and be absorbed in them; so that your growing proficiency in them may be evident to all.

But be always growing in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To Him be all glory, both now and to the day of Eternity!