Bible Verses about 'Increase'

He must increase, but I must decrease. John 3:30

He must increase, but I must decrease.
John 3:30 humility Jesus
When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes?
Ecclesiastes 5:11 materialism money desires

For in much wisdom is much grief:
and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
Ecclesiastes 1:18 wisdom sadness mind
And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you.
1 Thessalonians 3:12 love neighbor relationships
Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished:
but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.
Proverbs 13:11 money greed work
Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for your food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness.
2 Corinthians 9:10 righteousness food giving
Honour the Lord with thy substance,
and with the firstfruits of all thine increase.
Proverbs 3:9 money sacrifice giving
He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.
Ecclesiastes 5:10 money greed materialism
If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them; Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
Leviticus 26:3-4 obedience law blessing
He giveth power to the faint;
and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.
Isaiah 40:29 strength dependence equipment
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
Romans 6:1-2 sin grace life
We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth.
2 Thessalonians 1:3 faith love gratitude
And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
Genesis 1:28 blessing creation world
In that I command thee this day to love the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the Lord thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
Deuteronomy 30:16 law blessing life
Then had the churches rest throughout all Judaea and Galilee and Samaria, and were edified; and walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost, were multiplied.
Acts 9:31 church peace awe