Luke 8:15
But by that in the good ground are meant those who, having heard the Message, keep it in the good, rich soil of their hearts, and patiently yield a return.
Philippians 1:11
Bearing a rich harvest of that righteousness which comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
Colossians 1:6
Bearing fruit and growing, as it does, through all the world, just as it did among you, from the very day that you heard of God's loving-kindness, and understood what that loving-kindness really is.
Hebrews 10:36
You still have need of patient endurance, in order that, when you have done God's will, you may obtain the fulfillment of his promise.
Matthew 24:13
Yet the man that endures to the end shall be saved.
Luke 6:45
A good man, from the good stores of his heart, brings out what is good; while a bad man, from his bad stores, brings out what is bad. For what fills a man's heart will rise to his lips.
Luke 11:28
But Jesus replied: "Rather, happy are those who listen to God's Message and keep it."
John 14:15
If you love me, you will lay my commands to heart,
John 14:21-24
It is he who has my commands and lays them to heart that loves me; and he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him."
John 15:10
If you lay my commands to heart, you will remain in my love; just as I have laid the Father's commands to heart and remain in his love.
Romans 2:7
To those who, by perseverance in doing good, aim at glory, honor, and all that is imperishable, he will give Immortal Life;
Romans 6:22
But now that you have been set free from the control of Sin, and have become servants to God, the fruit that you reap is an ever-increasing holiness, and the end Immortal Life.
Romans 7:4
And so with you, my Brothers; as far as the Law was concerned, you underwent death in the crucified body of the Christ, so that you might be united to another, to him who was raised from the dead, in order that our lives might bear fruit for God.
Romans 7:18
I know that there is nothing good in me-I mean in my earthly nature. For, although it is easy for me to want to do right, to act rightly is not easy.
1 Corinthians 7:19
Circumcision is nothing; the want of it is nothing; but to keep the commands of God is everything.
Galatians 5:22-26
But the fruit produced by the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindliness, generosity, trustfulness, gentleness, self-control.
Ephesians 2:8
For it is by God's loving-kindness that you have been saved, through your faith. It is not due to yourselves; the gift is God's.
Philippians 3:13-15
For I, Brothers, do not regard myself as having yet laid hold of it. But this one thing I do--forgetting what lies behind, and straining every nerve for that which lies in front,
Colossians 1:10
Then you will live lives worthy of the Master, and so please God in every way. Your lives will be fruitful in every kind of good action, and your characters will grow through a fuller knowledge of God;
Hebrews 2:1
Therefore we must give still more heed to what we were taught, for fear we should drift away.
Hebrews 6:11-12
But our great desire is that every one of you should be equally earnest to attain to a full conviction that our hope will be fulfilled, and that you should keep that hope to the end.
James 1:4
And let endurance do its work perfectly, so that you may be altogether perfect, and in no respect deficient.
James 1:16-19
Do not be deceived, my dear Brothers.
James 1:22-25
Put that Message into practice, and do not merely listen to it--deceiving yourselves.
James 5:7-8
Be patient, then, Brothers, till the Coming of the Lord. Even the farmer has to wait for the precious fruit of the earth, watching over it patiently, till it has had the spring and summer rains.
1 Peter 2:1-2
Now that you have done with all malice, all deceitfulness, insincerity, jealous feelings, and all back-biting,
1 John 2:3
And by this we know that we have learned to know him--by our laying his commands to heart.