Bible verses about "fruitfulness" | Haweis

¹⁶ Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and appointed you that ye should go forth and bear fruit, and that your fruit should be permanent: that so whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he may give it you.

⁸ Herein is my Father glorified, that ye should bring forth much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.

⁶ being confident of this very thing, that he who hath wrought in you the good work will perfect it until the day of Jesus Christ:

⁵ And for this very purpose employing the greatest diligence, lead up in the train of your faith courage; and with courage intelligence; ⁶ and with intelligence moderation; and with moderation patience; and with patience piety; ⁷ and with piety fraternal affection; and with fraternal affection love. ⁸ For if these things are in your possession, and abounding, they will render you neither inactive nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁹ But he that hath no possession of these things, is blind, dim-sighted, sinking into oblivion of his purification from the sins of his former days.

¹⁴ What is the advantage, my brethren, if a man profess to have faith, but hath not works; can faith save him? ¹⁵ Now if a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, ¹⁶ and should one of you say to them, Go in peace, be warm, be replenished with food: yet if ye give them not the necessaries for their body; what doth it avail? ¹⁷ So also faith, if it hath not works, is dead itself. ¹⁸ Perhaps a man will say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith by thy works, and I will shew thee by my works my faith. ¹⁹ Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe and tremble. ²⁰ But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead? ²¹ Was not our father Abraham justified by works, when he offered up Isaac his son upon the altar? ²² Thou seest that faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith consummated. ²³ And the scripture was fulfilled, which saith, "Abraham believed God, and it was imputed to him for righteousness;" and he was called "the friend of God." ²⁴ Observe therefore that by works a man is justified, and not by faith merely. ²⁵ But was not Rahab the harlot in like manner justified by works, when she entertained the messengers, and sent them away by a different road? ²⁶ For as the body without breath is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, fidelity, ²³ meekness, temperance; against such there is no law.

¹ I AM the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. ² Every branch in me that beareth no fruit, he taketh it away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he pruneth it clean, that it may bring forth more fruit. ³ Ye are already clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. ⁴ Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abide in the vine: so neither can ye, except ye abide in me. ⁵ I am the vine, ye are the branches: he that abideth in me, and I in him, this person beareth much fruit: because without me ye can do nothing. ⁶ If any man abide not in me, he is cast out as a branch, and withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. ⁷ If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask whatsoever ye will, and it shall be done for you. ⁸ Herein is my Father glorified, that ye should bring forth much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples. ⁹ Just as the Father hath loved me, I also have loved you: abide in my love. ¹⁰ If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and as I abide in his love. ¹¹ These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy may abide in you, and your joy may be full. ¹² This is my commandment, That ye love one another, just as I have loved you. ¹³ Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. ¹⁴ Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever things I command you. ¹⁵ I no more call you servants; for the servant knoweth not what his master is doing: but I have called you friends because I have made known to you all things which I have heard of my Father. ¹⁶ Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and appointed you that ye should go forth and bear fruit, and that your fruit should be permanent: that so whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he may give it you. ¹⁷ These things I command you, that ye love one another. ¹⁸ If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before you. ¹⁹ If ye were of the world, the world would love its own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have elected you out of the world, for this very cause the world hateth you. ²⁰ Remember the word which I spake unto you, The servant is not greater than his master. If they have persecuted me, they will persecute you also; if they have observed my words, they will observe your's also. ²¹ But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me. ²² Had I not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin: but now they have no excuse for their sin. ²³ He that hateth me hateth my Father also. ²⁴ If I had not done among them the works which no other ever did, they would not have had sin: but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father. ²⁵ But it is in order that the word may be fulfilled which is written in their law, "They hated me without a cause." ²⁶ But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me: ²⁷ and ye too shall bear your testimony, because ye have been with me from the beginning.