What are some Bible verses about growing?

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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.  
  

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 Peter 2:2  

Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation—  
  

Hebrews 5:12  

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,  
  

Philippians 1:6  

And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.  
  

Isaiah 40:31  

But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.  
  

Isaiah 11:1  

There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse, and a branch from his roots shall bear fruit.  
  

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.  
  

John 15:5  

I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.  
  

Proverbs 16:31  

Gray hair is a crown of glory; it is gained in a righteous life.  
  

Ephesians 4:14\-16  

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.  
  

Proverbs 20:29  

The glory of young men is their strength, but the splendor of old men is their gray hair.  
  

Psalm 92:12\-14  

The righteous flourish like the palm tree and grow like a cedar in Lebanon. They are planted in the house of the Lord; they flourish in the courts of our God. They still bear fruit in old age; they are ever full of sap and green,  
  

Job 12:12  

Wisdom is with the aged, and understanding in length of days.  
  

Leviticus 19:32  

You shall stand up before the gray head and honor the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God: I am the Lord.  
  

1 Peter 2:2\-3  

Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation— if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good.  
  

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.  
  

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.  
  

Proverbs 27:17  

Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.  
  

Psalm 92:14  

They still bear fruit in old age; they are ever full of sap and green,  
  

*Unless otherwise noted, all Bible verses are from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version® Copyright© 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.*  
  

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