Growing Up

When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I set aside childish ways.

But as for you, continue in the things you have learned and firmly believed, since you know from whom you have learned them.

From infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

And Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man.

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

And the boy Samuel continued to grow in stature and in favor with the LORD and with man.

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.

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

From Him the whole body, fitted and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love through the work of each individual part.

And you were dead in your trespasses and sins, …

Fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath; instead, bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

And the Child grew and became strong. He was filled with wisdom, and the grace of God was upon Him.