19节关于成长的圣经经文

  • 哥林多前书 3:6-7 将成长归功于神:保罗栽种了,亚波罗浇灌了,“惟有神叫他生长。”
  • 希伯来书 5:12–6:1 责备了那些本该“作师傅”却仍需吃奶的读者,而彼得前书 2:2 则教导信徒要像新生儿一样渴慕灵奶,以便成长。
  • 以弗所书 4:15-16 描述了整个教会的成长,这是一个从基督(头)那里长出来的身体,“照着各体的功用彼此相助”。
  • 保罗在帖撒罗尼迦前书 3:12 中祈求帖撒罗尼迦人的爱心能增长,并在帖撒罗尼迦后书 1:3 中感谢神,因为他们的信心和爱心都在增长。
  • 雅各书 1:2-4 和罗马书 5:3-4 都追溯了从试炼或苦难到忍耐的过程,雅各书以成熟为终点,而罗马书则以盼望为终点。

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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