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Colossians 1:6
that 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 came to truly appreciate God’s grace.
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Galatians 5:22-26
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,gentleness, and self-control. The law is not against such things.Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit.Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.
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Hebrews 10:36
For you need endurance, so that after you have done God’s will, you may receive what was promised.
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Deuteronomy 30:6
The LORD your God will circumcise your heart and the hearts of your descendants, and you will love him with all your heart and all your soul so that you will live.
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Matthew 24:13
But the one who endures to the end will be saved.
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Luke 11:28
He said,“ Rather, blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it.”
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Colossians 1:10
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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Luke 6:45
A good person produces good out of the good stored up in his heart. An evil person produces evil out of the evil stored up in his heart, for his mouth speaks from the overflow of the heart.
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John 14:15
“ If you love me, you will keep my commands.
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Romans 6:22
But now, since you have been set free from sin and have become enslaved to God, you have your fruit, which results in sanctification— and the outcome is eternal life!
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Philippians 1:11
filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ to the glory and praise of God.
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1John 2:3
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John 15:10
If you keep my commands you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love.
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Romans 7:18
For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For the desire to do what is good is with me, but there is no ability to do it.
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Romans 2:7
eternal life to those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor, and immortality;
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1 Peter 2 1-1 Peter 2 2
Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all slander.Like newborn infants, desire the pure milk of the word, so that by it you may grow up into your salvation,
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James 1:22-25
But be doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.Because if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like someone looking at his own face in a mirror.For he looks at himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of person he was.But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom and perseveres in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer who works— this person will be blessed in what he does.
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James 1:16-19
Don’t be deceived, my dear brothers and sisters.Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.By his own choice, he gave us birth by the word of truth so that we would be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.My dear brothers and sisters, understand this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger,
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Romans 7:4
Therefore, my brothers and sisters, you also were put to death in relation to the law through the body of Christ so that you may belong to another. You belong to him who was raised from the dead in order that we may bear fruit for God.
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James 5:7-8
Therefore, brothers and sisters, be patient until the Lord’s coming. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth and is patient with it until it receives the early and the late rains.You also must be patient. Strengthen your hearts, because the Lord’s coming is near.
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1 Corinthians 7 19
Circumcision does not matter and uncircumcision does not matter. Keeping God’s commands is what matters.
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Philippians 3:13-15
Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and reaching forward to what is ahead,I pursue as my goal the prize promised by God’s heavenly call in Christ Jesus.Therefore, let all of us who are mature think this way. And if you think differently about anything, God will reveal this also to you.
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Ezekiel 36:26-27
I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.I will place my Spirit within you and cause you to follow my statutes and carefully observe my ordinances.
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Hebrews 2:1
For this reason, we must pay attention all the more to what we have heard, so that we will not drift away.
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Jeremiah 31:33
“ Instead, this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days”— the LORD’s declaration.“ I will put my teaching within them and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
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Jeremiah 32:29
The Chaldeans who are fighting against this city will come and set this city on fire. They will burn it, including the houses where incense has been burned to Baal on their rooftops and where drink offerings have been poured out to other gods to anger me.
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Jeremiah 15:16
Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words became a delight to me and the joy of my heart, for I bear your name, LORD God of Armies.
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Psalms 119:11
I have treasured your word in my heart so that I may not sin against you.
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Proverbs 3:1
My son, don’t forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commands;
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Job 23:11-12
My feet have followed in his tracks; I have kept to his way and not turned aside.I have not departed from the commands from his lips; I have treasured the words from his mouth more than my daily food.
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James 1:4
And let endurance have its full effect, so that you may be mature and complete, lacking nothing.
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Psalms 119:127-129
Since I love your commands more than gold, even the purest gold,I carefully follow all your precepts and hate every false way.Your decrees are wondrous; therefore I obey them.
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Psalms 51:10
God, create a clean heart for me and renew a steadfast spirit within me.
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Ephesians 2:8
For you are saved by grace through faith, and this is not from yourselves; it is God’s gift—
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Psalms 1:1-3
How happy is the one who does not walk in the advice of the wicked or stand in the pathway with sinners or sit in the company of mockers!Instead, his delight is in the LORD’s instruction, and he meditates on it day and night.He is like a tree planted beside flowing streams that bears its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. Whatever he does prospers.
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Hebrews 6:11-12
Now we desire each of you to demonstrate the same diligence for the full assurance of your hope until the end,so that you won’t become lazy but will be imitators of those who inherit the promises through faith and perseverance.
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John 14:21-24
The one who has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. And the one who loves me will be loved by my Father. I also will love him and will reveal myself to him.”Judas( not Iscariot) said to him,“ Lord, how is it you’re going to reveal yourself to us and not to the world?”Jesus answered,“ If anyone loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.The one who doesn’t love me will not keep my words. The word that you hear is not mine but is from the Father who sent me.