
"Like newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the word, so that by
it you may grow in respect to salvation, if you have tasted the kindness of
the Lord."
1 Peter 2:2-3
"Grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
To Him be the glory, both now and to the day of eternity. Amen."
2 Peter 3:18
"Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a workman who does
not need to be ashamed, accurately handling the word of truth."
2 Timothy 2:15
"Take pains with these things; be absorbed in them, so that your
progress will be evident to all."
1 Timothy 4:15
"Therefore leaving the elementary teaching about the Christ, let us
press on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead
works and of faith toward God."
Hebrews 6:1
"Now for this very reason also,
applying all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence, and in your
moral excellence, knowledge, and in your knowledge, self-control, and in your
self-control, perseverance, and in your perseverance, godliness, and in your
godliness, brotherly kindness, and in your brotherly kindness, love.
"For if these qualities are yours and are
increasing, they render you neither useless nor unfruitful in the true
knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ."
2 Peter 1:5-8
"For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every
family in heaven and on earth derives its name, that He would grant you,
according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through
His Spirit in the inner man, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through
faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to
comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and
depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may
be filled up to all the fullness of God."
Ephesians 3:14-19
"For this reason also, since the day we heard of it, we have not
ceased to pray for you and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of
His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, so that you will walk in a
manner worthy of the Lord, to please Him in all respects, bearing fruit in
every
good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; strengthened with all power,
according to His glorious might, for the attaining of all steadfastness and
patience."
Colossians 1:9-11
"Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you, with all wisdom
teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual
songs, singing with thankfulness in your hearts to God."
Colossians 3:16
"We all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the
Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as
from the Lord, the Spirit."
2 Corinthians 3:16
"The righteous man will flourish like the palm tree, He will grow like
a cedar in Lebanon."
Psalm 92:12
"For I am confident of this very thing,
that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ
Jesus.
"And this I pray, that your love may
abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment, so that you
may approve the things that are excellent, in order to be sincere and
blameless until the day of Christ."
Philippians 1:6, 9, 10
"As a result, we are no longer to be children, tossed here and there
by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men,
by craftiness in deceitful scheming; but speaking the truth in love, we are to
grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, even Christ."
Ephesians 4:14-15
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