Quotes About Growth

In the same way, urge the younger men to be self-controlled.

I pray that your partnership in the faith may become effective as you fully acknowledge every good thing that is ours in Christ.

Formerly he was useless to you, but now he has become useful both to you and to me.

For perhaps this is why he was separated from you for a while, so that you might have him back for good—

Confident of your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even more than I ask.

We must pay closer attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.

But exhort one another daily, as long as it is called today, so that none of you may be hardened by sinís deceitfulness.

Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall by following the same pattern of disobedience.

Although He was a Son, He learned obedience from what He suffered.

We have much to say about this, but it is hard to explain, because you are dull of hearing.

Although by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to reteach you the basic principles of Godís word. You need milk, not solid food!

For everyone who lives on milk is still an infant, inexperienced in the message of righteousness.

But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained their senses to distinguish good from evil.

Therefore let us leave the elementary teachings about Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith in God,

For land that drinks in the rain often falling on it and that produces a crop useful to those for whom it is tended receives the blessing of God.

But land that produces thorns and thistles is worthless, and its curse is imminent. In the end it will be burned.

Even though we speak like this, beloved, we are convinced of better things in your case—things that accompany salvation.

Then you will not be sluggish, but will imitate those who through faith and patience inherit what has been promised.

saying, “I will surely bless you and multiply your descendants.”

And let us consider how to spur one another on to love and good deeds.

Let us not neglect meeting together, as some have made a habit, but let us encourage one another, and all the more as you see the Day approaching.

Remember the early days that you were in the light. In those days, you endured a great conflict in the face of suffering.

And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons: “My son, do not take lightly the discipline of the Lord, and do not lose heart when He rebukes you.

For the Lord disciplines the one He loves, and He chastises every son He receives.”