Bible Verses about “adulthood”

“For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.”

“You fathers, don't provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.”

“Or don't you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don't be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,”

“When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.”

“nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortioners, will inherit the Kingdom of God.”

“for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,”

“For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.”

“"Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.”

“Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.”

“Such were some of you, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.”

“He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?”

“until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a full grown man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ;”

“but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, Christ;”

“that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;”

“as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that you may grow thereby,”

“The glory of young men is their strength. The splendor of old men is their gray hair.”

“But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.”

“And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men.”

“Therefore leaving the teaching of the first principles of Christ, let us press on to perfection--not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, of faith toward God,”

“The child was growing, and was becoming strong in spirit, being filled with wisdom, and the grace of God was upon him.”

“He who robs his father and drives away his mother, is a son who causes shame and brings reproach.”

“Also all that generation were gathered to their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, who didn't know Yahweh, nor yet the work which he had worked for Israel.”

“The child Samuel grew on, and increased in favor both with Yahweh, and also with men.”

“The child was growing, and becoming strong in spirit, and was in the desert until the day of his public appearance to Israel.”