Bible verses about "fruitfulness" | JuliaSmith

¹⁶ Ye chose not me, but I chose you, and I have set you, that ye might retire and bear fruit, and your fruit remain: that whatever ye ask the Father in my name, he might give you.

⁸ In this was my Father honoured, that ye should bear much fruit: and ye shall be disciples to me.

⁶ Confident of this same, that he having begun a good work in you will complete till the day of Jesus Christ:

⁵ And also this same, having brought in at the side all earnestness, furnish in addition in your faith fitness; and In fitness knowledge; ⁶ And in knowledge self-control; and in self-control patience; and in patience devotion; ⁷ And in devotion brotherly love; and in brotherly love, love. ⁸ For these being to you, and abounding, they establish you not without effort, neither unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁹ For in whom these are not present, he is blind, being affected with shortness of sight, having taken 2Peter 1:forgetfulness of the cleansing formerly of his sins.

¹⁴ And what profit, my brethren, if any say he has faith, and should not have works? can faith save him? ¹⁵ And if a brother or sister be naked, and be failing of daily food, ¹⁶ And any of you say to them, Retire in peace, be ye warmed and be ye fed; and ye give them not things fitting the body; what profit? ¹⁷ So also faith, if it have not works, is dead by itself. ¹⁸ But certain will say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: show me thy faith without thy works, and I will show thee my faith from my works. ¹⁹ Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: and the evil spirits believe, and shudder. ²⁰ And wilt thou know, O empty man, that faith without works is dead? ²¹ Was not Abraham our father justified by works, having brought up Isaac his son upon the altar ²² Thou seest that faith cooperated with his works, and from works was faith perfected. ²³ And the writing was completed, saying, And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him for justice: and he was called the Friend of God. ²⁴ Therefore ye see that man is justified from works, and not from faith alone. ²⁵ And likewise also was not Rehab the harlot justified by works, having received the messengers, and cast out by another way? ²⁶ For as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.

²² And the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faith, ²³ Meekness, temperance: against such is no law.

²⁸ And God will praise them, and God will say to them, be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over every living thing creeping upon the earth.

¹ I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. ² Every branch in me not bearing fruit he takes away: and every one bearing fruit, he cleanses it, that it might bear more fruit. ³ Already are ye clean, through the word which I have spoken to you. ⁴ Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, if it remain not in the vine; so neither ye, if ye remain not in me. ⁵ I am the vine, ye the branches: he remaining in me, and I in him, he bears much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. ⁶ If any remain not in me, he was cast forth as the branch, and was dried up; and they gather them together, and cast into the fire, and they are burned. ⁷ If ye remain in me, and my words remain in you, ye shall ask whatever ye wish, and it shall be to you. ⁸ In this was my Father honoured, that ye should bear much fruit: and ye shall be disciples to me. ⁹ As the Father loved me, I also loved you: remain in my love. ¹⁰ If ye keep my commands, ye shall remain in my love; as I have kept my Father's commands, and remain in his love. ¹¹ These things have I spoken to you, that my joy might remain in you, and your joy might be completed. ¹² This is my command, That ye love one another, as I loved you. ¹³ Greater love than this has none, that any lay down his life for his friends. ¹⁴ Ye are my friends, if ye do whatever I command you. ¹⁵ I no more call you servants; for the servant knows not what his lord does: and I have called you friends; for all which I heard of my Father I made known to you. ¹⁶ Ye chose not me, but I chose you, and I have set you, that ye might retire and bear fruit, and your fruit remain: that whatever ye ask the Father in my name, he might give you. ¹⁷ These things I command you, that ye love one another. ¹⁸ If the world hate you, know that it has hated me the first of you. ¹⁹ If ye were of the world, the world had loved its own: and because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. ²⁰ Remember the word which I said to you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they expelled me, they will also expel you; if they kept my word, they will keep yours also. ²¹ But all these will they do to you for my name, for they know not him having sent me. ²² If I had not come and spoken to them, they had not sin and now they have no pretext for their sin. ²³ He hating me hates my Father also. ²⁴ If I did not the works in them which none other has done, they had not sin: and now have they also seen and hated also me and my Father. ²⁵ But that the word written in their law might be completed, That they hated me gratuitously. ²⁶ And when the Intercessor should come, which I will send you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, which comes from the Father, he shall testify of me: ²⁷ And ye also testify, for ye are with me from the beginning.