The Bible talks a lot about growth and how people can become better.
It teaches us important lessons about growing in our faith, becoming kinder and more loving, and developing into the best version of ourselves.
From stories of individuals overcoming challenges to guidance on how to live a fulfilling life, the Bible offers wisdom on how we can grow in every aspect of our lives.
Let’s explore what it says about this journey of becoming a better person.
Bible Quotes About Growth
- 2 Peter 3:18
But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.
- 1 Timothy 4:15
Practice these things, immerse yourself in them, so that all may see your progress. - Hebrews 5:12-14
For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food, for everyone who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is a child. But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil. - Hebrews 6:1
Therefore let us leave the elementary doctrine of Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God, - Romans 5:2-6
Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. - Philippians 1:9
And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment, - Job 8:7
And though your beginning was small, your latter days will be very great. - 2 Corinthians 13:5-7
Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or do you not realize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you fail to meet the test! I hope you will find out that we have not failed the test. But we pray to God that you may not do wrong—not that we may appear to have met the test, but that you may do what is right, though we may seem to have failed. - Ephesians 4:13-16
Until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes. Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love. - 1 Peter 2:2
Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation— - Colossians 2:6-7
Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving. - James 1:2-4
Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. - Galatians 6:9
And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up. - 1 Corinthians 13:11
When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. - Colossians 1:9-10
And so, from the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, so as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him: bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; - Matthew 6:33
But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
- John 12:24-25
Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life. - Colossians 1:10
So as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him: bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; - Philippians 3:12-14
Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. - 1 Samuel 2:26
Now the boy Samuel continued to grow both in stature and in favor with the Lord and also with man. - John 3:16-17
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. - 2 Peter 3:18
but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory, both now and to the day of eternity. Amen. - Colossians 1:10
so that you will walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, to please Him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; - 1 Thessalonians 3:12
and may the Lord cause you to increase and abound in love for one another, and for all people, just as we also do for you; - Ephesians 1:17
that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of Him. - Luke 2:52
And Jesus kept increasing in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men. - Luke 2:40
The Child continued to grow and become strong, increasing in wisdom; and the grace of God was upon Him. - Colossians 1:6
which has come to you, just as in all the world also it is constantly bearing fruit and increasing, even as it has been doing in you also since the day you heard of it and understood the grace of God in truth; - 1 Corinthians 3:7
So then neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but God who causes the growth. - 1 Samuel 2:26
Now the boy Samuel was growing in stature and in favor both with the Lord and with men. - Philippians 1:9
And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment
- 2 Corinthians 10:15
not boasting beyond our measure, that is, in other men’s labors, but with the hope that as your faith grows, we will be, within our sphere, enlarged even more by you, - Ecclesiastes 11:5
Just as you do not know the path of the wind and how bones are formed in the womb of the pregnant woman, so you do not know the activity of God who makes all things. - Acts 16:5
So the churches were being strengthened in the faith, and were increasing in number daily. - John 3:30
He must increase, but I must decrease. - Matthew 13:30
Allow both to grow together until the harvest; and in the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers, “First gather up the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them up; but gather the wheat into my barn.”’” - Ephesians 4:13
until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ. - Colossians 2:19
and not holding fast to the head, from whom the entire body, being supplied and held together by the joints and ligaments, grows with a growth which is from God. - Mark 4:27
and he goes to bed at night and gets up by day, and the seed sprouts and grows—how, he himself does not know. - Psalm 104:14
He causes the grass to grow for the cattle,
And vegetation for the labor of man,
So that he may bring forth food from the earth, - 1 Corinthians 3:6
I planted, Apollos watered, but God was causing the growth. - Luke 1:80
And the child continued to grow and to become strong in spirit, and he lived in the deserts until the day of his public appearance to Israel. - Ephesians 4:16
from whom the whole body, being fitted and held together by what every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love. - Ephesians 2:21
in whom the whole building, being fitted together, is growing into a holy temple in the Lord, - Psalm 49:16
Do not be afraid when a man becomes rich,
When the glory of his house is increased; - Psalm 144:12
Let our sons in their youth be as grown-up plants,
And our daughters as corner pillars fashioned as for a palace; - Judges 16:22
However, the hair of his head began to grow again after it was shaved off.
- 2 Peter 1:8
For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they render you neither useless nor unfruitful in the true knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. - Psalm 129:6
Let them be like grass upon the housetops,
Which withers before it grows up; - Job 14:7
“For there is hope for a tree,
When it is cut down, that it will sprout again,
And its shoots will not fail. - James 1:15
Then when lust has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and when sin is accomplished, it brings forth death. - Hebrews 11:24
By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter, - Isaiah 61:11
For as the earth brings forth its sprouts,
And as a garden causes the things sown in it to spring up,
So the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise
To spring up before all the nations. - 2 Thessalonians 1:3
We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brethren, as is only fitting, because your faith is greatly enlarged, and the love of each one of you toward one another grows ever greater; - Ezekiel 31:4
‘The waters made it grow, the deep made it high.
With its rivers it continually extended all around its planting place,
And sent out its channels to all the trees of the field. - Mark 4:8
Other seeds fell into the good soil, and as they grew up and increased, they yielded a crop and produced thirty, sixty, and a hundredfold.” - Proverbs 22:6
Train up a child in the way he should go,
Even when he is old he will not depart from it. - Luke 12:27
Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; but I tell you, not even Solomon in all his glory clothed himself like one of these. - Proverbs 24:31
And behold, it was completely overgrown with thistles;
Its surface was covered with nettles,
And its stone wall was broken down. - Psalm 132:17
“There I will cause the horn of David to spring forth;
I have prepared a lamp for Mine anointed. - Job 21:7
“Why do the wicked still live,
Continue on, also become very powerful? - Acts 19:20
So the word of the Lord was growing mightily and prevailing. - 1 Peter 2:2
like newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the word, so that by it you may grow in respect to salvation,
- Galatians 4:1
Now I say, as long as the heir is a child, he does not differ at all from a slave although he is owner of everything, - Matthew 24:12
Because lawlessness is increased, most people’s love will grow cold. - Hebrews 8:13
When He said, “A new covenant,” He has made the first obsolete. But whatever is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to disappear. - Psalm 84:7
They go from strength to strength,
Every one of them appears before God in Zion. - Luke 8:6
Other seed fell on rocky soil, and as soon as it grew up, it withered away, because it had no moisture. - Proverbs 20:13
Do not love sleep, or you will become poor;
Open your eyes, and you will be satisfied with food. - Ecclesiastes 12:3
in the day that the watchmen of the house tremble, and mighty men stoop, the grinding ones stand idle because they are few, and those who look through windows grow dim; - 1 Corinthians 14:20
Brethren, do not be children in your thinking; yet in evil be infants, but in your thinking be mature. - Isaiah 40:28
Do you not know? Have you not heard?
The Everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth Does not become weary or tired.
His understanding is inscrutable. - 2 Peter 3:18
but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory, both now and to the day of eternity. Amen. - Genesis 21:8
The child grew and was weaned, and Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned. - 1 Corinthians 11:15
but if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to her? For her hair is given to her for a covering. - 1 Thessalonians 3:12
and may the Lord cause you to increase and abound in love for one another, and for all people, just as we also do for you; - Psalm 144:12
Let our sons in their youth be as grown-up plants, And our daughters as corner pillars fashioned as for a palace;
As we’ve seen, the Bible has much wisdom to offer on the topic of growth.
It encourages us to strive for improvement in all aspects of our lives, from our character to our faith.
By following its teachings and examples, we can continue to grow and become the best versions of ourselves.
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