Growing

and increase ye in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; to him <FI>is<Fi> the glory both now, and to the day of the age! Amen.

as new-born babes the word's pure milk desire ye, that in it ye may grow,

Not that I did already obtain, or have been already perfected; but I pursue, if also I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by the Christ Jesus; — read the full passage →

to your walking worthily of the Lord to all pleasing, in every good work being fruitful, and increasing to the knowledge of God,

When I was a babe, as a babe I was speaking, as a babe I was thinking, as a babe I was reasoning, and when I have become a man, I have made useless the things of the babe;

Wherefore, having left the word of the beginning of the Christ, unto the perfection we may advance, not again a foundation laying of reformation from dead works, and of faith on God,

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. — read the full passage →

for even owing to be teachers, because of the time, again ye have need that one teach you what <FI>are<Fi> the elements of the beginning of the oracles of God, and ye have become having need of milk, and not of strong food, — read the full passage →

as, then, ye did receive Christ Jesus the Lord, in him walk ye, — read the full passage →

for even owing to be teachers, because of the time, again ye have need that one teach you what <FI>are<Fi> the elements of the beginning of the oracles of God, and ye have become having need of milk, and not of strong food,

and, being true in love, we may increase to Him <FI>in<Fi> all things, who is the head--the Christ;

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

Because of this, we also, from the day in which we heard, do not cease praying for you, and asking that ye may be filled with the full knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding, — read the full passage →

having been confident of this very thing, that He who did begin in you a good work, will perform <FI>it<Fi> till a day of Jesus Christ,

And this same also--all diligence having brought in besides, superadd in your faith the worthiness, and in the worthiness the knowledge, — read the full passage →

and in the doing good we may not be faint-hearted, for at the proper time we shall reap--not desponding;

as new-born babes the word's pure milk desire ye, that in it ye may grow, — read the full passage →

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

till we may all come to the unity of the faith and of the recognition of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to a measure of stature of the fulness of the Christ,

Having put aside, then, all evil, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envyings, and all evil speakings, — read the full passage →

and He gave some <FI>as<Fi> apostles, and some <FI>as<Fi> prophets, and some <FI>as<Fi> proclaimers of good news, and some <FI>as<Fi> shepherds and teachers, — read the full passage →

with milk I fed you, and not with meat, for ye were not yet able, but not even yet are ye now able,

so that if any one <FI>is<Fi> in Christ--<FI> he is<Fi> a new creature; the old things did pass away, lo, become new have the all things.

and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what <FI>is<Fi> the will of God--the good, and acceptable, and perfect.

`I am the vine, ye the branches; he who is remaining in me, and I in him, this one doth bear much fruit, because apart from me ye are not able to do anything;

every Writing <FI>is<Fi> God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that <FI>is<Fi> in righteousness,

through whom also we have the access by the faith into this grace in which we have stood, and we boast on the hope of the glory of God. — read the full passage →

and Jesus was advancing in wisdom, and in stature, and in favour with God and men.

be diligent to present thyself approved to God--a workman irreproachable, rightly dividing the word of the truth;

of these things be careful; in these things be, that thy advancement may be manifest in all things;

All joy count <FI>it<Fi> , my brethren, when ye may fall into temptations manifold; — read the full passage →

Brethren, become not children in the understanding, but in the evil be ye babes, and in the understanding become ye perfect;

because nothing shall be impossible with God.'

and this I pray, that your love yet more and more may abound in full knowledge, and all judgment,

knowing that the proof of your faith doth work endurance,

with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love,

`And that which fell to the thorns: These are they who have heard, and going forth, through anxieties, and riches, and pleasures of life, are choked, and bear not to completion. — read the full passage →

of the teaching of baptisms, of laying on also of hands, of rising again also of the dead, and of judgment age-during,

Charge these things, and teach; — read the full passage →

in hypocrisy speaking lies, being seared in their own conscience,

to know him, and the power of his rising again, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being conformed to his death,

every Writing <FI>is<Fi> God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that <FI>is<Fi> in righteousness, — read the full passage →

till we may all come to the unity of the faith and of the recognition of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to a measure of stature of the fulness of the Christ, — read the full passage →

that by revelation He made known to me the secret, according as I wrote before in few <FI>words<Fi> --

in whom all the building fitly framed together doth increase to an holy sanctuary in the Lord,

but seek ye first the reign of God and His righteousness, and all these shall be added to you.

And this same also--all diligence having brought in besides, superadd in your faith the worthiness, and in the worthiness the knowledge,

and ye did not so learn the Christ, — read the full passage →

thou, therefore, suffer evil as a good soldier of Jesus Christ;

and you the Lord cause to increase and to abound in the love to one another, and to all, even as we also to you,

And the apostles said to the Lord, `Add to us faith;'

because also Christ once for sin did suffer--righteous for unrighteous--that he might lead us to God, having been put to death indeed, in the flesh, and having been made alive in the spirit,

look to the dogs, look to the evil-workers, look to the concision;

so thoughtless are ye! having begun in the Spirit, now in the flesh do ye end?

Wherefore, having left the word of the beginning of the Christ, unto the perfection we may advance, not again a foundation laying of reformation from dead works, and of faith on God, — read the full passage →

Lie not one to another, having put off the old man with his practices, — read the full passage →

being diligent to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of the peace;

And this: He who is sowing sparingly, sparingly also shall reap; and he who is sowing in blessings, in blessings also shall reap;

and we all, with unvailed face, the glory of the Lord beholding in a mirror, to the same image are being transformed, from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

and when that which is perfect may come, then that which <FI>is<Fi> in part shall become useless.

without natural affection, implacable, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, not lovers of those who are good,

being rooted and built up in him, and confirmed in the faith, as ye were taught--abounding in it in thanksgiving.

Your own selves try ye, if ye are in the faith; your own selves prove ye; do ye not know your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you, if ye be not in some respect disapproved of? — read the full passage →

that we may no more be babes, tossed and borne about by every wind of the teaching, in the sleight of men, in craftiness, unto the artifice of leading astray,

And manifest also are the works of the flesh, which are: Adultery, whoredom, uncleanness, lasciviousness, — read the full passage →

`I am the Alpha and the Omega, beginning and end, saith the Lord, who is, and who was, and who is coming--the Almighty.'

of one another the burdens bear ye, and so fill up the law of the Christ,

For all things I have strength, in Christ's strengthening me;

lo, I Paul do say to you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing;

And there was given to me a reed like to a rod, and the messenger stood, saying, `Rise, and measure the sanctuary of God, and the altar, and those worshipping in it; — read the full passage →

and He gave some <FI>as<Fi> apostles, and some <FI>as<Fi> prophets, and some <FI>as<Fi> proclaimers of good news, and some <FI>as<Fi> shepherds and teachers,

An aged person thou mayest not rebuke, but be entreating as a father; younger persons as brethren;

and the profane and old women's fables reject thou, and exercise thyself unto piety,

`Happy those hungering and thirsting for righteousness--because they shall be filled.