Quotes About Growth

When you lived among them, you also used to walk in these ways.

and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.

On the contrary, we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother caring for her children.

We sent Timothy, our brother and fellow worker for God in the gospel of Christ, to strengthen and encourage you in your faith,

Night and day we pray most earnestly that we may see you face to face and supply what is lacking from your faith.

And may the Lord cause you to increase and overflow with love for one another and for everyone else, just as our love for you overflows,

Finally, brothers, we ask and encourage you in the Lord Jesus to live in a way that is pleasing to God, just as you have received from us. This is how you already live, so you should do so all the more.

And you are indeed showing this love to all the brothers throughout Macedonia. But we urge you, brothers, to excel more and more

Therefore encourage and build one another up, just as you are already doing.

We are obligated to thank God for you all the time, brothers, as is fitting, because your faith is growing more and more, and your love for one another is increasing.

He must not be a recent convert, or he may become conceited and fall under the same condemnation as the devil.

But reject irreverent, silly myths. Instead, train yourself for godliness.

Until I come, devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to exhortation, and to teaching.

Be diligent in these matters and absorbed in them, so that your progress will be evident to all.

Pay close attention to your life and to your teaching. Persevere in these things, for by so doing you will save both yourself and those who hear you.

For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands.

and the talk of such men will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus,

Flee from youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, together with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

who are always learning but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth.

But as for you, continue in the things you have learned and firmly believed, since you know from whom you have learned them.

From infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

so that the man of God may be complete, fully equipped for every good work.

Only Luke is with me. Get Mark and bring him with you, because he is useful to me in the ministry.

The reason I left you in Crete was that you would set in order what was unfinished and appoint elders in every town, as I directed you.