Thematic Bible: Demanded
Thematic Bible
Fruit, spiritual » Conditions of fruit-bearing » Demanded
You [apostles] did not choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you to go and bear much fruit [i.e., through their evangelizing], and that your fruit should last. Then the Father will give you whatever you ask Him for in my name [i.e. by my authority].
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Demonstrate by your lives that you have [really] repented,
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Now God, who provides seeds to the planter and bread for food, will [also] supply and [even] multiply your seeds for planting, and will increase the harvest of your generosity.
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Therefore, my brothers, you also died to the law [i.e., were released from its binding requirements] through the body of Christ [Note: This seems to refer to Christ's death on the cross, but some think it refers to becoming a part of the church], so that you could belong to someone else, [namely] to Christ, who was raised from the dead in order that we might live spiritually productive lives for God.
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[We pray for you] to live a life deserving of the Lord, pleasing to Him in every way, producing fruit in every good deed and growing in the knowledge of God.
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having been full of qualities of righteousness, which come from Jesus Christ and produce honor and praise to God.
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[Now] it is not that I am looking for a gift, but I am looking for the benefit that [such a gift] will add to your [spiritual] account [with God].
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- A Righteous People
- Abiding With God
- Abolish, Fulfilled By Christ
- Abounding, Good Things
- Adventure
- Agriculture, Growth From God
- Asking For Help
- Asking In Jesus Name
- Being A Pilgrim
- Being Chosen
- Being Content
- Being Devoted to God
- Being Filled With God
- Being Happy And Enjoying Life
- Bread
- Bread, As Food
- Calling In Christ's Name
- Change And Growth
- Chosen Disciples
- Chosen Instruments
- Christ Is Risen
- Christian, The Walk
- Conduct, Proper
- Conversion, nature of
- Credit
- Dead To Sin
- Death Of Loved One
- Development
- Doing Your Best
- Ethics
- Farming
- Fellowship With Christ
- First Love
- Freedom from the Law
- Fruit Of Character
- Fruit Of The Spirit
- Fruit, Spiritual
- Fruitful Labour
- Fruitfulness, Spiritual
- Fruits Of Righteousness
- Gifts And Talents
- God Answers Prayer
- God Feeds All The Earth
- Growing
- Growth
- Growth In Grace
- Harvest
- Increase
- Knowing God
- Knowing God, Effects Of
- Living For God
- Marriage To God
- Mission, Of The Church
- Mortification
- Participation In Christ Death And Resurrection
- Participation, In Christ
- Planting Seeds
- Pleasing God
- Potential Of Fruit
- Prayer, As A Response To God
- Prayer, God's Promises Concerning
- Predestination, Of Persons
- Provisions
- Reaping
- Reaping What You Sow
- Repentance
- Repentance, Nature Of
- Respecting Your Body
- Resurrection, Spiritual
- Righteousness, As Faith
- Sanctification, Means And Results
- Sanctification, Nature And Basis
- Seeds
- Self Worth
- Showing Forth His Praise
- Signs Of Repentance
- Sowing Good
- Sowing Seeds
- Spiritual Growth
- Spiritual Vitality
- Thankfulness
- The Father
- Walking
- What Manner?
- Without The Law
- Working For God
- Working For The Lord
- Worth
- Worthiness
- Worthy People
- Accounting
- Election, responsibilities of
- Election, to salvation
- Fruitfulness
- Law
- Order
- Providing
- Sowing
- Vocation