Bible Verses about “growing up”
The Bible contains 19 verses about growing up across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“You fathers, don't provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.”
“Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.”
“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.”
“He gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, shepherds and teachers;”
“for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Christ;”
“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;”
“from whom all the body, being fitted and knit together through that which every joint supplies, according to the working in measure of each individual part, makes the body increase to the building up of itself in love.”
“From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus.”
“But you remain in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them.”
“But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.”
“for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren't you fleshly, and don't you walk in the ways of men?”
“And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men.”
“The child was growing, and was becoming strong in spirit, being filled with wisdom, and the grace of God was upon him.”
“I fed you with milk, not with meat; for you weren't yet ready. Indeed, not even now are you ready,”
“Brothers, I couldn't speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ.”
“For when one says, "I follow Paul," and another, "I follow Apollos," aren't you fleshly?”
“The child Samuel grew on, and increased in favor both with Yahweh, and also with men.”