Quotes About Growth

Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven works through the whole batch of dough?

Each one should remain in the situation he was in when he was called.

Brothers, each one should remain in the situation he was in when God called him.

The one who thinks he knows something does not yet know as he ought to know.

Be careful, however, that your freedom does not become a stumbling block to the weak.

If we have sown spiritual seed among you, is it too much for us to reap a material harvest from you?

They all ate the same spiritual food

“Everything is permissible,” but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible,” but not everything is edifying.

And indeed, there must be differences among you to show which of you are approved.

Now if we judged ourselves properly, we would not come under judgment.

But when we are judged by the Lord, we are being disciplined so that we will not be condemned with the world.

But eagerly desire the greater gifts. And now I will show you the most excellent way.

but when the perfect comes, the partial passes away.

When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I set aside childish ways.

But he who prophesies speaks to men for their edification, encouragement, and comfort.

The one who speaks in a tongue edifies himself, but the one who prophesies edifies the church.

It is the same with you. Since you are eager to have spiritual gifts, strive to excel in gifts that build up the church.

You may be giving thanks well enough, but the other one is not edified.

Brothers, stop thinking like children. In regard to evil be infants, but in your thinking be mature.

For you can all prophesy in turn so that everyone may be instructed and encouraged.

Sober up as you ought, and stop sinning; for some of you are ignorant of God. I say this to your shame.

You fool! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.

And what you sow is not the body that will be, but just a seed, perhaps of wheat or something else.

But God gives it a body as He has designed, and to each kind of seed He gives its own body.