Bible Verses about 'Increase'
| He must increase, but I must decrease. | He must become greater; I must become less. |
| When good things increase, those who consume them increase. So what is the advantage to their owners except to look at them? | As goods increase, so do those who consume them. And what benefit are they to the owners except to feast their eyes on them? |
| And may the Lord cause you to increase and overflow in love for one another, and for all people, just as we also do for you. | May the Lord make your love increase and overflow for each other and for everyone else, just as ours does for you. |
| Because in much wisdom there is much grief; and increasing knowledge results in increasing pain. | For with much wisdom comes much sorrow; the more knowledge, the more grief. |
| Now He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness. | Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness. |
| Wealth obtained from nothing dwindles, But one who gathers by labor increases it. | Dishonest money dwindles away, but whoever gathers money little by little makes it grow. |
| Honor the Lord from your wealth, And from the first of all your produce. | Honor the Lord with your wealth, with the firstfruits of all your crops. |
| What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase? Far from it! How shall we who died to sin still live in it? | What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? |
| He gives strength to the weary, And to the one who lacks might He increases power. | He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. |
| One who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor one who loves abundance with its income. This too is futility. | Whoever loves money never has enough; whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with their income. This too is meaningless. |
| If you walk in My statutes and keep My commandments so as to carry them out, then I shall give you rains in their season, so that the land will yield its produce and the trees of the field will bear their fruit. | If you follow my decrees and are careful to obey my commands, I will send you rain in its season, and the ground will yield its crops and the trees their fruit. |
| The Lord also restored the fortunes of Job when he prayed for his friends, and the Lord increased double all that Job had. | After Job had prayed for his friends, the Lord restored his fortunes and gave him twice as much as he had before. |
| We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers and sisters, as is only fitting, because your faith is increasing abundantly, and the love of each and every one of you toward one another grows ever greater. | We ought always to thank God for you, brothers and sisters, and rightly so, because your faith is growing more and more, and the love all of you have for one another is increasing. |
| God blessed them; and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” | God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.” |
| In that I am commanding you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in His ways and to keep His commandments, His statutes, and His judgments, so that you may live and become numerous, and that the Lord your God may bless you in the land where you are entering to take possession of it. | For I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him, and to keep his commands, decrees and laws; then you will live and increase, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land you are entering to possess. |
| So the church throughout Judea, Galilee, and Samaria enjoyed peace, as it was being built up; and as it continued in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, it kept increasing. | Then the church throughout Judea, Galilee and Samaria enjoyed a time of peace and was strengthened. Living in the fear of the Lord and encouraged by the Holy Spirit, it increased in numbers. |
Bible verse of the day
A prudent person sees evil and hides himself;But the naive proceed, and pay the penalty.