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Matthew 3:10
Even now the ax is ready to strike the root of the trees! Therefore, every tree that doesn’t produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.
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Hebrews 12:10-11
For they disciplined us for a short time based on what seemed good to them, but He does it for our benefit, so that we can share His holiness.No discipline seems enjoyable at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it yields the fruit of peace and righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
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Matthew 15:13
He replied,“ Every plant that My heavenly Father didn’t plant will be uprooted.
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Revelation 3:19
As many as I love, I rebuke and discipline. So be committed and repent.
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Luke 13:7-9
He told the vineyard worker,‘ Listen, for three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree and haven’t found any. Cut it down! Why should it even waste the soil?’“ But he replied to him,‘ Sir, leave it this year also, until I dig around it and fertilize it.Perhaps it will bear fruit next year, but if not, you can cut it down.’”
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1 Thessalonians 5 23-1 Thessalonians 5 24
Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely. And may your spirit, soul, and body be kept sound and blameless for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.He who calls you is faithful, who also will do it.
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Hebrews 6:7-8
For ground that has drunk the rain that has often fallen on it and that produces vegetation useful to those it is cultivated for receives a blessing from God.But if it produces thorns and thistles, it is worthless and about to be cursed, and will be burned at the end.
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John 15:8
My Father is glorified by this: that you produce much fruit and prove to be My disciples.
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Matthew 13:12
For whoever has, more will be given to him, and he will have more than enough. But whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.
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Job 17:9
Yet the righteous person will hold to his way, and the one whose hands are clean will grow stronger.
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Matthew 3:12
His winnowing shovel is in His hand, and He will clear His threshing floor and gather His wheat into the barn. But the chaff He will burn up with fire that never goes out.”
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Galatians 5:22-23
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,gentleness, self-control. Against such things there is no law.
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Philippians 1:9-11
And I pray this: that your love will keep on growing in knowledge and every kind of discernment,so that you can approve the things that are superior and can be pure and blameless in the day of Christ,filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ to the glory and praise of God.
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Matthew 21:19
Seeing a lone fig tree by the road, He went up to it and found nothing on it except leaves. And He said to it,“ May no fruit ever come from you again!” At once the fig tree withered.
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Malachi 3:3
He will be like a refiner and purifier of silver; He will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver. Then they will present offerings to the Lord in righteousness.
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Hebrews 12:15
Make sure that no one falls short of the grace of God and that no root of bitterness springs up, causing trouble and by it, defiling many.
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Luke 8:13
And the seed on the rock are those who, when they hear, welcome the word with joy. Having no root, these believe for a while and depart in a time of testing.
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1John 2:19
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Psalms 51:7-13
Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones You have crushed rejoice.Turn Your face away from my sins and blot out all my guilt.God, create a clean heart for me and renew a steadfast spirit within me.Do not banish me from Your presence or take Your Holy Spirit from me.Restore the joy of Your salvation to me, and give me a willing spirit.Then I will teach the rebellious Your ways, and sinners will return to You.
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2 Corinthians 4 17-2 Corinthians 4 18
For our momentary light affliction is producing for us an absolutely incomparable eternal weight of glory.So we do not focus on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.
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John 17:12
While I was with them, I was protecting them by Your name that You have given Me. I guarded them and not one of them is lost, except the son of destruction, so that the Scripture may be fulfilled.
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Hosea 6:3
Let us strive to know the Lord. His appearance is as sure as the dawn. He will come to us like the rain, like the spring showers that water the land.
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Colossians 1:5-10
because of the hope reserved for you in heaven. You have already heard about this hope in the message of truth, the gospelthat has come to you. It is bearing fruit and growing all over the world, just as it has among you since the day you heard it and recognized God’s grace in the truth.You learned this from Epaphras, our dearly loved fellow slave. He is a faithful servant of the Messiah on your behalf,and he has told us about your love in the Spirit.For this reason also, since the day we heard this, we haven’t stopped praying for you. We are asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,so that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to Him, bearing fruit in every good work and growing in the knowledge of God.
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John 15:16
You did not choose Me, but I chose you. I appointed you that you should go out and produce fruit and that your fruit should remain, so that whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you.
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Isaiah 29:19
The humble will have joy after joy in the Lord, and the poor people will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
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Matthew 13:33
He told them another parable:“ The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed into 50 pounds of flour until it spread through all of it.”
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Romans 5:3-5
And not only that, but we also rejoice in our afflictions, because we know that affliction produces endurance,endurance produces proven character, and proven character produces hope.This hope will not disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
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1 Corinthians 13 1
If I speak human or angelic languages but do not have love, I am a sounding gong or a clanging cymbal.
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Proverbs 4:18
The path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, shining brighter and brighter until midday.
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Titus 2:14
He gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to cleanse for Himself a people for His own possession, eager to do good works.
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Romans 8:28
We know that all things work together for the good of those who love God: those who are called according to His purpose.
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Isaiah 27:9
Therefore Jacob’s iniquity will be purged in this way, and the result of the removal of his sin will be this: when he makes all the altar stones like crushed bits of chalk, no Asherah poles or incense altars will remain standing.