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.
Matthew 3:10
But the axe is already lying at the roots of the trees. Any tree that fails to produce good fruit is going to be cut down and thrown into the fire.
Matthew 13:12
For people who have will have more given to them, and will be plentifully supplied, and from people who have nothing even what they have will be taken away.
Matthew 15:13
But he answered, "Any plant that my heavenly Father did not plant must be uprooted!
Matthew 3:12
His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clean up his threshing-floor, and store his wheat in his barn, but he will burn up the chaff with inextinguishable fire."
Matthew 13:33
Another figure which he used with them was this: "The Kingdom of Heaven is like yeast, which a woman took and buried in a bushel of flour until it had all risen."
Matthew 21:19
and seeing a fig tree by the roadside, he went up to it, but found nothing on it but leaves. And he said to it, "No more fruit shall ever grow on you!" And the fig tree withered up at once.
Luke 8:13
The ones on the rock are those who receive the message joyfully when they first hear it, but it takes no real root. They believe for a little while, and then in the time of trial they draw back.
Luke 13:7-9
And he said to the gardener, 'Here I have come three years to look for fruit on this fig tree, without finding any. Cut it down. Why should it waste the ground?'
John 15:8
When you are very fruitful and show yourselves to be disciples of mine, my Father is honored.
John 15:16
It was not you who chose me, it is I that have chosen you, and appointed you to go and bear fruit??ruit that shall be lasting, so that the Father may grant you whatever you ask him for as my followers.
John 17:12
As long as I was with them I kept them by your power which you gave me, and I protected them, and not one of them was lost (except the one who was destined to be lost), so that what the Scripture says might come true.
Romans 5:3-5
More than that, we ought to glory in our troubles, for we know that trouble produces endurance,
Romans 8:28
We know that in everything God works with those who love him, whom he has called in accordance with his purpose, to bring about what is good.
1 Corinthians 13:1
I will show you a far better way. If I can speak the languages of men and even of angels, but have no love, I am only a noisy gong or a clashing cymbal.
2 Corinthians 4:17-18
For this slight, momentary trouble is piling up for me an eternal blessedness beyond all comparison,
Galatians 5:22-23
But what the Spirit produces is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
Philippians 1:9-11
And it is my prayer that your love may grow richer and richer in knowledge and perfect insight,
Colossians 1:5-10
and for the hope of what is stored up for you in heaven. You first heard of it long ago when the true message of the gospel
1 Thessalonians 5:23-24
May God himself, the giver of peace, consecrate you through and through. Spirit, soul, and body, may you be kept sound, and be found irreproachable when our Lord Jesus Christ comes.
Titus 2:14
He gave himself for us, to free us from all wickedness and purify for himself a people of his own, eager to do right.
Hebrews 6:7-8
Ground that drinks in frequent showers and produces vegetation that is of use to those for whom it is cultivated receives God's blessing.
Hebrews 12:10-11
For they disciplined us for a short time and as they thought proper, but he does it for our good, to make us share his holiness.
Hebrews 12:15
Be careful that no one fails to gain God's favor, or some poisonous root may come up to trouble and contaminate you all??16 some immoral or godless person like Esau, who sold his very birthright for one single meal.
1 John 2:19
They have gone out from our number, but they did not really belong to us. For if they had, they would have stayed with us. It was to make it clear that none of them really belonged to us that they withdrew.
Revelation 3:19
I reprove and discipline all whom I love. So be earnest and repent.