20 Bible Verses about

Spiritual Growth in Everyday Life

Luke 8:14 BSB

The seeds that fell among the thorns are those who hear, but as they go on their way, they are choked by the worries, riches, and pleasures of this life, and their fruit does not mature.

Psalm 88:9 BSB

My eyes grow dim with grief. I call to You daily, O LORD; I spread out my hands to You.

Isaiah 57:16 BSB

For I will not accuse you forever, nor will I always be angry; for then the spirit of man would grow weak before Me—the breath of life I have made.

Proverbs 11:30 BSB

The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and he who wins souls is wise.

Proverbs 18:21 BSB

Life and death are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.

Romans 6:22 BSB

But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the fruit you reap leads to holiness, and the outcome is eternal life.

Isaiah 40:31 BSB

But those who wait upon the LORD will renew their strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not faint.

Ezekiel 47:12 BSB

Along both banks of the river, fruit trees of all kinds will grow. Their leaves will not wither, and their fruit will not fail. Each month they will bear fruit, because the water from the sanctuary flows to them. Their fruit will be used for food and their leaves for healing.”

Psalm 56:13 BSB

For You have delivered my soul from death, and my feet from stumbling, that I may walk before God in the light of life.

John 8:12 BSB

Once again, Jesus spoke to the people and said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows Me will never walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”

Romans 6:4 BSB

We were therefore buried with Him through baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may walk in newness of life.

Isaiah 42:5 BSB

This is what God the LORD says—He who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and its offspring, who gives breath to the people on it and life to those who walk in it:

Ezekiel 37:6 BSB

I will attach tendons to you and make flesh grow upon you and cover you with skin. I will put breath within you so that you will come to life. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’”

Revelation 22:2 BSB

down the middle of the main street of the city. On either side of the river stood a tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruit and yielding a fresh crop for each month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.

2 Peter 3:18 BSB

But 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.

Colossians 1:10 BSB

so that you may walk in a manner worthy of the Lord and may please Him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God,

Ephesians 4:15 BSB

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

Ephesians 4:13 BSB

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.

Deuteronomy 8:13 BSB

and when your herds and flocks grow large and your silver and gold increase and all that you have is multiplied,

2 Peter 1:8 BSB

For if you possess these qualities and continue to grow in them, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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