'Growing' in the Bible

Then he fell asleep again and had a second dream: There were seven heads of grain growing on one stalk, healthy and good.

I also saw in my dream seven heads of grain growing on one stalk, full and good.

Now the boy Samuel was growing up and finding favor both with the Lord and with people.

I have seen ruthless evil men growing in influence, like a green tree grows in its native soil.

But the path of the righteous is like the bright morning light, growing brighter and brighter until full day.

But those who wait for the Lord's help find renewed strength; they rise up as if they had eagles' wings, they run without growing weary, they walk without getting tired.

They will be like a shrub in the desert. They will not experience good things even when they happen. It will be as though they were growing in the desert, in a salt land where no one can live.

Because the storm was growing worse and worse, they said to him, "What should we do to you to make the sea calm down for us?"

Instead, they tried to row back to land, but they were not able to do so because the storm kept growing worse and worse.

But other seed fell on good soil and produced grain, sprouting and growing; some yielded thirty times as much, some sixty, and some a hundred times."

And the child kept growing and becoming strong in spirit, and he was in the wilderness until the day he was revealed to Israel.

Now in those days, when the disciples were growing in number, a complaint arose on the part of the Greek-speaking Jews against the native Hebraic Jews, because their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution of food.

I pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you spiritual wisdom and revelation in your growing knowledge of him,

that has come to you. Just as in the entire world this gospel is bearing fruit and growing, so it has also been bearing fruit and growing among you from the first day you heard it and understood the grace of God in truth.

so that you may live worthily of the Lord and please him in all respects -- bearing fruit in every good deed, growing in the knowledge of God,

When he speaks of a new covenant, he makes the first obsolete. Now what is growing obsolete and aging is about to disappear.