'Becoming' in the Bible

He shall not eat an animal which dies or is torn by beasts, becoming unclean by it; I am the Lord.

Sing for joy in the Lord, O you righteous ones;Praise is becoming to the upright.

Praise the Lord!For it is good to sing praises to our God;For it is pleasant and praise is becoming.

The mighty men of Babylon have ceased fighting,They stay in the strongholds;Their strength is exhausted,They are becoming like women;Their dwelling places are set on fire,The bars of her gates are broken.

So they said to him, “What should we do to you that the sea may become calm for us?”—for the sea was becoming increasingly stormy.

However, the men rowed desperately to return to land but they could not, for the sea was becoming even stormier against them.

The word of God kept on spreading; and the number of the disciples continued to increase greatly in Jerusalem, and a great many of the priests were becoming obedient to the faith.

But the Jews, becoming jealous and taking along some wicked men from the market place, formed a mob and set the city in an uproar; and attacking the house of Jason, they were seeking to bring them out to the people.

But when some were becoming hardened and disobedient, speaking evil of the Way before the people, he withdrew from them and took away the disciples, reasoning daily in the school of Tyrannus.

Without becoming weak in faith he contemplated his own body, now as good as dead since he was about a hundred years old, and the deadness of Sarah’s womb;

Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.

When He said, “A new covenant,” He has made the first obsolete. But whatever is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to disappear.

partly by being made a public spectacle through reproaches and tribulations, and partly by becoming sharers with those who were so treated.