Bible Verses About Family Growth

And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.

Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; that ye may be increased there, and not diminished.

Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.

For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.

For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Now for a recompence in the same, (I speak as unto my children,) be ye also enlarged.

And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you:

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them.

Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.

That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

But the word of God grew and multiplied.

As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:

And all thy children shall be taught of the Lord; and great shall be the peace of thy children.

And I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increase and bring fruit: and I will settle you after your old estates, and will do better unto you than at your beginnings: and ye shall know that I am the Lord.

And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly.

And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.

And sow the fields, and plant vineyards, which may yield fruits of increase.

Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.

Those that be planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of our God.

Lift up thine eyes round about, and see: all they gather themselves together, they come to thee: thy sons shall come from far, and thy daughters shall be nursed at thy side.

Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth.

And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied;

The children of thy servants shall continue, and their seed shall be established before thee.

And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people;

Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.

Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.

Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more.

But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.

Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne to all generations. Selah.

I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth;

Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.

Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.

And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.

The children that are begotten of them shall enter into the congregation of the Lord in their third generation.

Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.

But other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold.

From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.