Luke 8:15
But as for that in the good ground, it means those who, having listened to the Message with open minds and in a right spirit, hold it fast, and patiently yield a return.
Philippians 1:11
being filled with these fruits of righteousness which come through Jesus Christ-- to the glory and praise of God.
Colossians 1:6
For it has reached you, and remains with you, just as it has also spread through the whole world, yielding fruit there and increasing, as it has done among you from the day when first you heard it and came really to know the grace of God,
Hebrews 10:36
For you stand in need of patient endurance, so that, as the result of having done the will of God, you may receive the promised blessing.
Matthew 24:13
but those who stand firm to the End shall be saved.
Luke 6:45
A good man from the good stored up in his heart brings out what is good; and an evil man from the evil stored up brings out what is evil; for from the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks.
Luke 11:28
"Nay rather," He replied, "they are blessed who hear God's Message and carefully keep it."
John 14:15
"If you love me, you will obey my commandments.
John 14:21-24
He who has my commandments and obeys them--he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will clearly reveal myself to him."
John 15:10
If you obey my commands, you will continue in my love, as I have obeyed my Father's commands and continue in His love.
Romans 2:7
to those on the one hand who, by lives of persistent right-doing, are striving for glory, honour and immortality, the Life of the Ages;
Romans 6:22
But now that you have been set free from the tyranny of Sin, and have become the bondservants of God, you have your reward in being made holy, and you have the Life of the Ages as the final result.
Romans 7:4
So, my brethren, to you also the Law died through the incarnation of Christ, that you might be wedded to Another, namely to Him who rose from the dead in order that we might yield fruit to God.
Romans 7:18
For I know that in me, that is, in my lower self, nothing good has its home; for while the will to do right is present with me, the power to carry it out is not.
1 Corinthians 7:19
Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing: obedience to God's commandments is everything.
Galatians 5:22-26
The Spirit, on the other hand, brings a harvest of love, joy, peace; patience towards others, kindness, benevolence;
Ephesians 2:8
For it is by grace that you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves. It is God's gift, and is not on the ground of merit--
Philippians 3:13-15
Brethren, I do not imagine that I have yet laid hold of it. But this one thing I do--forgetting everything which is past and stretching forward to what lies in front of me,
Colossians 1:10
so that your lives may be worthy of the Lord and perfectly pleasing to Him, while you exhibit the results of right action of every sort and grow into a fuller knowledge of God.
Hebrews 2:1
For this reason we ought to pay the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, for fear we should drift away from them.
Hebrews 6:11-12
But we long for each of you to continue to manifest the same earnestness, with a view to your enjoying fulness of hope to the very End;
James 1:4
Only let endurance have perfect results so that you may become perfect and complete, deficient in nothing.
James 1:16-19
Do not be deceived, my dearly-loved brethren.
James 1:22-25
But prove yourselves obedient to the Message, and do not be mere hearers of it, imposing a delusion upon yourselves.
James 5:7-8
Be patient therefore, brethren, until the Coming of the Lord. Notice how eagerly a farmer waits for a valuable crop! He is patient over it till it has received the early and the later rain.
1 Peter 2:1-2
Rid yourselves therefore of all ill-will and all deceitfulness, of insincerity and envy, and of all evil speaking.
1 John 2:3
And by this we may know that we know Him--if we obey His commands.