Quotes About Growth

because a great door for effective work has opened to me, even though many oppose me.

Confident of this, I planned to visit you first, so that you might receive a double blessing.

Not that we lord it over your faith, but we are fellow workers with you for your joy, because it is by faith that you stand firm.

My purpose in writing you was to see if you would stand the test and be obedient in everything.

So then, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you.

Therefore we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, yet our inner self is being renewed day by day.

So from now on we regard no one according to the flesh. Although we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer.

As a fair exchange, I ask you as my children: Open wide your hearts also.

Even if I caused you sorrow by my letter, I do not regret it. Although I did regret it, I now see that my letter caused you sorrow, but only for a short time.

So we urged Titus to help complete your act of grace, just as he had started it.

Now He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your store of seed and will increase the harvest of your righteousness.

And we will be ready to punish every act of disobedience, as soon as your obedience is complete.

We do not dare to classify or compare ourselves with some who commend themselves. When they measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves, they show their ignorance.

Neither do we boast beyond our limits in the labors of others. But we hope that as your faith increases, our area of influence among you will greatly increase as well,

so that we can preach the gospel in the regions beyond you. Then we will not be boasting in the work already done in another manís territory.

I hope you will bear with a little of my foolishness, but you are already doing that.

Although I am not a polished speaker, I am certainly not lacking in knowledge. We have made this clear to you in every way possible.

I will boast about such a man, but I will not boast about myself, except in my weaknesses.

Have you been thinking all along that we were making a defense to you? We speak before God in Christ, and all of this, beloved, is to build you up.

Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Canít you see for yourselves that Jesus Christ is in you—unless you actually fail the test?

In fact, we rejoice when we are weak but you are strong, and our prayer is for your perfection.

Are you so foolish? After starting in the Spirit, are you now finishing in the flesh?

What I am saying is that as long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a slave, although he is the owner of everything.

He is subject to guardians and trustees until the date set by his father.