What Does the Bible Say About Grow Up?

2 Peter 3:18 ESV / 5 helpful votes

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 Peter 2:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes

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

2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 5 helpful votes

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.

Romans 12:1-2 ESV / 5 helpful votes

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

John 14:27 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.

Psalm 139:13-16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.

1 John 2:15-17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world. And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.

2 Peter 1:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

By which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire.

Hebrews 10:25 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.

Hebrews 5:11-14 ESV / 3 helpful votes

About this we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing. 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 Timothy 4:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Have nothing to do with irreverent, silly myths. Rather train yourself for godliness;

John 10:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.

Psalm 119:105 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 3 helpful votes

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. ...

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Ephesians 4:1-32 ESV / 2 helpful votes

I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call— one Lord, one faith, one baptism, ...

Galatians 5:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

Romans 8:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

Acts 2:38 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

John 14:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“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.

John 1:1-51 ESV / 2 helpful votes

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. ...

Matthew 19:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Honor your father and mother, and, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

Jeremiah 1:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

Leviticus 18:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.

Exodus 20:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“You shall not murder.

Genesis 1:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

28 Bible Verses about Grow Up

2 Peter 3:18 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Peter 2:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes

2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Romans 12:1-2 ESV / 5 helpful votes

John 14:27 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Psalm 139:13-16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 John 2:15-17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

2 Peter 1:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Hebrews 10:25 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Hebrews 5:11-14 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Timothy 4:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 10:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Psalm 119:105 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 3 helpful votes

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 4:1-32 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Galatians 5:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 8:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 2:38 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 14:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 1:1-51 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 19:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jeremiah 1:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Leviticus 18:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Exodus 20:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 1:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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28 Bible Verses about Grow Up

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2 Peter 3:18 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Peter 2:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes

2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Romans 12:1-2 ESV / 5 helpful votes

John 14:27 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Psalm 139:13-16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 John 2:15-17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

2 Peter 1:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

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1 Timothy 4:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 10:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Psalm 119:105 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 3 helpful votes

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 4:1-32 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Galatians 5:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 8:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 2:38 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 14:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 1:1-51 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 19:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jeremiah 1:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Leviticus 18:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Exodus 20:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 1:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes