100 Bible Verses About Spiritual Growth
Bible verses about Spiritual Growth
Embark on a transformative journey of spiritual growth, guided by the unwavering light of scripture. Within these verses, discover the divine blueprint for cultivating a deeper connection with God and nurturing the seeds of faith within your soul. Understanding spiritual growth through the Bible is not merely an intellectual exercise, but a pathway to experiencing the fullness of life that Christ promised. Let the wisdom of these passages illuminate your path, empowering you to overcome challenges, embrace grace, and blossom into the person God has destined you to be. Embrace the process, for in growth, we find true purpose and lasting joy.
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Song of Solomon 4:15 (KJV)
A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon.
Grow in Faith: Bible Verses for Spiritual Growth
And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.
That which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt keep and perform; even a freewill offering, according as thou hast vowed unto the Lord thy God, which thou hast promised with thy mouth.
For your shame ye shall have double; and for confusion they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess the double: everlasting joy shall be unto them.
He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not against his word.
That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace:
The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,
My soul followeth hard after thee: thy right hand upholdeth me.
A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?
And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah’s son. If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established.
Thy name, O Lord, endureth for ever; and thy memorial, O Lord, throughout all generations.
Six days may work be done; but in the seventh is the sabbath of rest, holy to the Lord: whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.
The heart of the wise teacheth his mouth, and addeth learning to his lips.
Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in thee?
When the wicked are multiplied, transgression increaseth: but the righteous shall see their fall.
Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst the Lord thy God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against the Lord.
And they journeyed from Oboth, and pitched at Ije–abarim, in the wilderness which is before Moab, toward the sunrising.
The Lord is great in Zion; and he is high above all the people.
And her father hear her vow, and her bond wherewith she hath bound her soul, and her father shall hold his peace at her: then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she hath bound her soul shall stand.
And that which is left of the meat offering shall be Aaron’s and his sons’: it is a thing most holy of the offerings of the Lord made by fire.
Exalt ye the Lord our God, and worship at his footstool; for he is holy.
Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.
As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.
And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the Lord: and the Lord strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done evil in the sight of the Lord.
Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness.
Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.
Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the Lord pondereth the hearts.
And forty sockets of silver he made under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets under another board for his two tenons.
Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.
O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;
They stand fast for ever and ever, and are done in truth and uprightness.
A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon.
Whoso is wise, and will observe these things, even they shall understand the lovingkindness of the Lord.
Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.
But the sons of Belial shall be all of them as thorns thrust away, because they cannot be taken with hands:
And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah–jireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the Lord it shall be seen.
And it came to pass, that, when Abraham’s servant heard their words, he worshipped the Lord, bowing himself to the earth.
And when they forgat the Lord their God, he sold them into the hand of Sisera, captain of the host of Hazor, and into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab, and they fought against them.
The Lord shall go forth as a mighty man, he shall stir up jealousy like a man of war: he shall cry, yea, roar; he shall prevail against his enemies.
The labour of the righteous tendeth to life: the fruit of the wicked to sin.
Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path.
Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of affliction; for thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that thou mayest remember the day when thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life.
He that is of a proud heart stirreth up strife: but he that putteth his trust in the Lord shall be made fat.
As for our redeemer, the Lord of hosts is his name, the Holy One of Israel.
Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let not arrogancy come out of your mouth: for the Lord is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.
Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?
And Jonathan Saul’s son arose, and went to David into the wood, and strengthened his hand in God.
It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.
But Israel shall be saved in the Lord with an everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end.
The voice of the Lord maketh the hinds to calve, and discovereth the forests: and in his temple doth every one speak of his glory.
If thou shalt hear say in one of thy cities, which the Lord thy God hath given thee to dwell there, saying,
And it came to pass, when they were come, that he looked on Eliab, and said, Surely the Lord’s anointed is before him.
God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him.
Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out.
Only the people sacrificed in high places, because there was no house built unto the name of the Lord, until those days.
Who among you will give ear to this? who will hearken and hear for the time to come?
And Moses said unto the Lord, See, thou sayest unto me, Bring up this people: and thou hast not let me know whom thou wilt send with me. Yet thou hast said, I know thee by name, and thou hast also found grace in my sight.
And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall respect that which his fingers have made, either the groves, or the images.
And he increased his people greatly; and made them stronger than their enemies.
Fear not: for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west;
And that was counted unto him for righteousness unto all generations for evermore.
Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken to thy voice: cause me to hear it.
And when Balaam saw that it pleased the Lord to bless Israel, he went not, as at other times, to seek for enchantments, but he set his face toward the wilderness.
And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved.
The righteous shall be glad in the Lord, and shall trust in him; and all the upright in heart shall glory.
The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.
So David waxed greater and greater: for the Lord of hosts was with him.
And afterward the people removed from Hazeroth, and pitched in the wilderness of Paran.
Then I saw, and considered it well: I looked upon it, and received instruction.
And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith.
Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.
He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the Lord’s, and he hath set the world upon them.
In that day shall the Lord of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people,
Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased.
He hath made his wonderful works to be remembered: the Lord is gracious and full of compassion.
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
But as for me, I will come into thy house in the multitude of thy mercy: and in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple.
Because thou hast made the Lord, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation;
And the Lord appointed a set time, saying, To morrow the Lord shall do this thing in the land.
Therefore we said, Let us now prepare to build us an altar, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice:
The horse is prepared against the day of battle: but safety is of the Lord.
And the angel of the Lord came again the second time, and touched him, and said, Arise and eat; because the journey is too great for thee.
Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended? who hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound the waters in a garment? who hath established all the ends of the earth? what is his name, and what is his son’s name, if thou canst tell?
Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.
He taketh it with his eyes: his nose pierceth through snares.
The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.
But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee:
Then said I, Ah, Lord God! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child.
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
He that walketh in his uprightness feareth the Lord: but he that is perverse in his ways despiseth him.
The Lord shall smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore botch that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head.
Be not righteous over much; neither make thyself over wise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself?
The Lord is gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy.
Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct him? he that reproveth God, let him answer it.
Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.
For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.
These Bible verses on spiritual growth paint a vivid picture: a journey of transformation fueled by God's grace and our active participation. From nurturing the seed of faith to bearing fruit, the scriptures emphasize the importance of consistent nourishment through prayer, study, and obedience. The highlighted verses remind us that spiritual growth is not a passive process but an intentional pursuit, requiring diligence, perseverance, and a willingness to surrender to God's leading. Take time to reflect on these powerful words, asking God to reveal areas in your own life where He desires growth. Consider how you can actively apply these principles – meditating on scripture, cultivating fellowship, and serving others – to deepen your relationship with Him and walk more closely in His likeness. Embrace the journey, knowing that God is faithful to complete the good work He has begun in you.