Grace of God: Growth In

They go from strength to strength, until each appears before God in Zion.

The path of the righteous is like the first gleam of dawn, shining brighter and brighter until midday.

…being confident of this, that He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.

Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. …

…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,

…being strengthened with all power according to His glorious might so that you may have full endurance and patience, and joyfully

He has lost connection to the head, from whom the whole body, supported and knit together by its joints and ligaments, grows as God causes it to grow.

Night and day we pray most earnestly that we may see you face to face and supply what is lacking in 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,

…so that He may establish your hearts in blamelessness and holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all His saints. Amen.

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.

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, …

Rid yourselves, therefore, of all malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander. …

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.