Bible Verses About Human Growth

Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?

And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man.

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

And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great:

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

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.

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

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

And which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit?

And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, filled with wisdom: and the grace of God was upon him.

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

For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased.

But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:

And Samuel grew, and the Lord was with him, and did let none of his words fall to the ground.

Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.

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.

They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing;

Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:

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

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.

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.

As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all.

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

I have caused thee to multiply as the bud of the field, and thou hast increased and waxen great, and thou art come to excellent ornaments: thy breasts are fashioned, and thine hair is grown, whereas thou wast naked and bare.

But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.

By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land.

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.

A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I the Lord will hasten it in his time.

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

But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

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

And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:

What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?

It is thou, O king, that art grown and become strong: for thy greatness is grown, and reacheth unto heaven, and thy dominion to the end of the earth.

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

But the word of God grew and multiplied.

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

And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.

As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.