'Growing' in the Bible

Meanwhile, Jesus kept on growing wiser and more mature, and in favor with God and his fellow man.

In those days, as the number of the disciples was growing larger and larger, a complaint was made by the Hellenistic Jews against the Hebraic Jews that their widows were being neglected in the daily distribution of food.

I planted, Apollos watered, but God kept everything growing.

So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is significant, but God, who keeps everything growing, is the one who matters.

Finally, brothers, goodbye. Keep on growing to maturity. Keep listening to my appeals. Continue agreeing with each other and living in peace. Then the God of love and peace will be with you.

And this is my prayer, that your love will keep on growing more and more with full knowledge and insight,

so that you might live in a manner worthy of the Lord and be fully pleasing to him as you bear fruit while doing all kinds of good things and growing in the full knowledge of God.

Brothers, at all times we are obligated to thank God for you. It is right to do this because your faith is growing all the time and the love every one of you has for each other is increasing.