2 Peter 1:8
For if you have these qualities in their fulness, they will make you neither idle nor unproductive when it comes to the understanding of our Lord Jesus Christ.
John 15:2
Any branch of mine that does not bear fruit he trims away, and he prunes every branch that bears fruit, to make it bear more.
Colossians 3:16
Let the message of Christ live in your hearts in all its wealth of wisdom. Teach it to one another and train one another in it with thankfulness, with psalms, hymns, and sacred songs, and sing to God with all your hearts.
Titus 3:14
Have our people learn to make it their business to do good, so as to meet these pressing demands and not live unfruitful lives.
2 Peter 1:2
God bless you and give you perfect peace through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.
Matthew 13:22
And what was sown among the thorns means the man who listens to the message, and then the worries of the time and the pleasure of being rich choke the message out, and it yields nothing.
Matthew 20:3
He went out about nine o'clock and saw others standing in the bazaar with nothing to do.
Matthew 20:6
About five he went out and found others standing about and he said to them, 'Why have you been standing about here all day doing nothing?'
Matthew 25:26
His master answered, 'You wicked, idle slave! You knew that I reaped where I had not sown and gathered where I had not threshed?
John 5:42
but I know well that you have not the love of God in your hearts.
John 15:6-8
Anyone who does not remain united to me is thrown away like a branch and withers up, and they gather them and throw them into the fire and burn them.
Romans 12:11
not wanting in devotion, but on fire with the Spirit. Serve the Lord.
2 Corinthians 5:13-17
For if I was out of my senses, as they say, it was between God and me; and if I am in my right mind, it is for your good.
2 Corinthians 8:2
for in spite of a severe ordeal of trouble, their extraordinary gladness, combined with their extreme poverty, has overflowed in a wealth of generosity.
2 Corinthians 8:7
Just as you excel in everything else??aith, expression, knowledge, perfect devotion, and the love we have awakened in you??ou must excel in this generous undertaking too.
2 Corinthians 9:14
then they will long for you and pray for you, because of the extraordinary favor God has shown you.
2 Corinthians 13:5
It is yourselves you must test, to see whether you are holding to the faith. It is yourselves you must examine. Do you not know that Jesus Christ is within you? Unless you fail to stand the test!
Philippians 1:9
And it is my prayer that your love may grow richer and richer in knowledge and perfect insight,
Philippians 2:5
Have the same attitude that Christ Jesus had.
Colossians 2:7
You must be rooted and built up in him and made strong in faith, just as you were taught to be, overflowing with it in your gratitude.
1 Thessalonians 3:12
May the Lord make your love for one another and for all men wide and full like my love for you,
1 Thessalonians 4:1
Now, brothers, we ask and entreat you, in the name of the Lord Jesus, to live as you learned from us that you must live, to please God??s indeed you are doing, only do it more and more.
2 Thessalonians 1:3
We always have to thank God for you, brothers, as it is right that we should, because your faith is growing so wonderfully and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing.
1 Timothy 5:13
Besides, as they go about from house to house they learn to be idle, and not only idle but gossips and busybodies, and talk of things they ought not to mention.
Hebrews 6:12
so that you may never grow careless, but may learn to follow the example of those who through their faith and endurance are the possessors of God's promises.