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19 Bible Verses About Growth

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  • 1 Corinthians 3:6-7 credits growth to God: Paul planted and Apollos watered, “but God has been making it grow.”
  • Hebrews 5:12–6:1 rebukes readers who still need milk when “by this time you ought to be teachers,” while 1 Peter 2:2 tells believers to crave milk like newborns so that they grow.
  • Ephesians 4:15-16 describes the growth of the whole church, a body growing from Christ its head “as each part does its work.”
  • Paul asks for the Thessalonians’ love to increase in 1 Thessalonians 3:12 and, in 2 Thessalonians 1:3, thanks God that their faith and love are growing.
  • James 1:2-4 and Romans 5:3-4 both trace a sequence from trials or suffering to perseverance, ending in maturity in James and in hope in Romans.

The Bible treats growth as something God gives and something his people are told to pursue. Paul says he planted and Apollos watered, “but God has been making it grow” (1 Corinthians 3:6), and Second Peter ends with the command to “grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ” (2 Peter 3:18). The New Testament pictures that growth as branches bearing fruit on a vine (John 15:5), infants moving from milk to solid food (1…

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Scripture quotations are from the New International Version.

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