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16 Bible Verses About Spiritual Growth

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  • In John 15:2 the gardener prunes the branches that already bear fruit, “so that it will be even more fruitful”.
  • 1 Corinthians 3:6-7 credits the growth of the Corinthian church to God alone: Paul planted, Apollos watered, “but God has been making it grow”.
  • Milk serves two purposes: 1 Peter 2:2 tells believers to crave it in order to grow, while Hebrews 5:12-14 and 1 Corinthians 3:2 use it for readers who should have moved on to solid food.
  • Philippians 2:12-13 puts the command and God’s part in one sentence: “work out your salvation” because “it is God who works in you”.
  • James 1:2-4 and Romans 5:3-4 both say that trials produce perseverance, and James says perseverance makes a believer “mature and complete”.

The Bible treats spiritual growth as God’s work and as a command to believers. Paul says that “only God” makes things grow (1 Corinthians 3:7), and Peter tells his readers to “grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ” (2 Peter 3:18). The images come from farming and childhood: Jesus as the vine and his Father as the gardener (John 15:1-5), roots (Colossians 2:7), newborns who crave milk (1 Peter 2:2), and the mature who…

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Scripture quotations are from the New International Version.

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