Bible Verses About Personal Growth
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for personal growth, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 2,455 votes, led by 2 Peter 3:18. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Personal Growth
2 Peter 3:18105 votes
But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.
Hebrews 5:12-1490 votes
For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.
Hebrews 6:173 votes
Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,
Philippians 1:656 votes
Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:
Romans 5:2-654 votes
By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
Colossians 1:1054 votes
That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
2 Corinthians 13:5-753 votes
Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
Colossians 1:9-1052 votes
For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;
1 Samuel 2:2651 votes
And the child Samuel grew on, and was in favour both with the Lord, and also with men.
1 Timothy 4:1550 votes
Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all.
Revelation 1:150 votes
The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:
1 Timothy 4:11-1549 votes
These things command and teach.
Luke 8:14-1548 votes
And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection.
Revelation 11:1-1944 votes
And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.
1 Peter 2:242 votes
As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:
Psalms 119:10540 votes
Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
Ephesians 4:13-1639 votes
Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:
1 Corinthians 13:1138 votes
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
Romans 5:237 votes
By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
Philippians 1:937 votes
And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;
Colossians 2:6-737 votes
As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him:
James 1:2-437 votes
My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;
Philippians 3:12-1433 votes
Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
Jeremiah 29:1132 votes
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
Luke 1:3732 votes
For with God nothing shall be impossible.
What does the Bible say about personal growth?
Readers most often cite 2 Peter 3:18 on the subject of personal growth. Across 2,455 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Hebrews 5:12-14, Hebrews 6:1, Philippians 1:6. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.