Quotes About Growth

So also, when we were children, we were enslaved under the basic principles of the world.

I fear for you, that my efforts for you may have been in vain.

My children, for whom I am again in the pains of childbirth until Christ is formed in you,

You were running so well. Who has obstructed you from obeying the truth?

A little leaven works through the whole batch of dough.

But if you keep on biting and devouring one another, watch out, or you will be consumed by one another.

For the flesh craves what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are opposed to each other, so that you do not do what you want.

Since we live by the Spirit, let us walk in step with the Spirit.

If anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

Each one should test his own work. Then he will have reason to boast in himself alone, and not in someone else.

For each one should carry his own load.

Nevertheless, the one who receives instruction in the word must share in all good things with his instructor.

The one who sows to please his flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; but the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.

In Him the whole building is fitted together and grows into a holy temple in the Lord.

And in Him you too are being built together into a dwelling place for God in His Spirit.

so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. Then you, being rooted and grounded in love,

to equip the saints for works of ministry and to build up the body of Christ,

until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God, as we mature to the full measure of the stature of Christ.

Then we will no longer be infants, tossed about by the waves and carried around by every wind of teaching and by the clever cunning of men in their deceitful scheming.

Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into Christ Himself, who is the head.

From Him the whole body, fitted and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love through the work of each individual part.

to put off your former way of life, your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;

to be renewed in the spirit of your minds;

and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.