Luke 8:15

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Summary

But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.

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1 Peter 2:1

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General references

Matthew 24:13

Luke 21:19

John 7:17

Bible References

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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.

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.

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.

Do not be deceived, my dear Brothers.

Now that you have done with all malice, all deceitfulness, insincerity, jealous feelings, and all back-biting,

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Yet the man that endures to the end shall be saved.

To those who, by perseverance in doing good, aim at glory, honor, and all that is imperishable, he will give Immortal Life;

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.

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.

But the fruit produced by the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindliness, generosity, trustfulness, gentleness, self-control.

Bearing a rich harvest of that righteousness which comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

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,

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.

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.

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.

And let endurance do its work perfectly, so that you may be altogether perfect, and in no respect deficient.

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.

General references

Yet the man that endures to the end shall be saved.

By your endurance you shall win yourselves Life.

If any one has the will to do God's will, he will find out whether my teaching is from God, or whether I speak on my own authority.