Bible verses about "fruitfulness" | Sawyer

¹⁶ You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and appointed you to go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should continue, that whatever you ask the Father in my name he may give you.

⁸ By this is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit and be my disciples.

⁶ having this same confidence, that he who has begun a good work in you will carry it on till the day of Jesus Christ,

⁵ and for the same purpose also, giving all diligence add to your faith virtue, and to virtue knowledge, ⁶ and to knowledge temperance, and to temperance patience, and to patience piety, ⁷ and to piety brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love. ⁸ For if these are in you and abound, they will make you not inactive nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ; ⁹ for a man that is without these is blind, not seeing to a distance, and has forgotten the purification from his former errors.

^{14 (1:7)} What is the profit, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has not works? Can faith save him? ¹⁵ And if a brother or sister is naked, or destitute of daily food, ¹⁶ and one of you says to them, Go in peace, be warmed and be filled, but gives them not the necessary supplies for the body, what is the profit? ¹⁷ So also faith, if it has not works, is dead, being alone. ¹⁸ But some one will say, You have faith, and I have works; show me your faith without works, and I will show you my faith by works. ¹⁹ You believe that there is one God? You do well; demons also believe and tremble. ²⁰ But will you know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead? ²¹ Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he offered up Isaac his son on the altar? ²² You see that faith cooperated with his works, and by works was faith made perfect, ²³ and the Scripture was fulfilled which says, And Abraham believed God and it was accounted to him a righteousness, and he was called God's friend. ²⁴ You see then that a man is justified by works and not by faith only. ²⁵ And in like manner also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she received the messengers and sent them out another way? ²⁶ For as the body without a spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

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

^{1 (17:1)} I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. ² Every branch in me that bears not fruit he takes away; and every branch that bears fruit he trims, that it may bear more fruit. ³ You are now pure, by means of the word which I have spoken to you; ⁴ continue in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it continues in the vine, so you cannot, unless you continue in me. ⁵ I am the vine, you are the branches. He that continues in me and I in him, this man bears much fruit; for separated from me, you can do nothing. ⁶ If any one continues not in me he is cast without as a branch, and is withered; and they collect them and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. ⁷ If you continue in me, and my words continue in you, you shall ask whatever you will, and it shall be [given] you. ⁸ By this is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit and be my disciples. ⁹ As the Father has loved me, I also have loved you; continue in my love. ¹⁰ If you keep my commandments you shall continue in my love, as I have kept my Father's commandments and continue in his love. ¹¹ I have spoken these things to you that my joy may be in you, and your joy be completed. ¹² This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. ¹³ No man has greater love than this, that one should give his life for his friends. ¹⁴ You are my friends if you do what I command you; ¹⁵ I no longer call you servants, for the servant knows not what his Lord does; but I have called you friends: for all things which I have heard from my Father I have made known to you. ¹⁶ You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and appointed you to go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should continue, that whatever you ask the Father in my name he may give you. ¹⁷ These things I charge you, that you love one another. ^{18 (17:2)} If the world hates you, you know that it hated me before you. ¹⁹ If you were of this world, the world would be a friend to its own; but because you 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, a servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my word, they will also keep yours. ²¹ But all these things they will do to you, on my account, because they know not him that sent me. ²² If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no pretext for their sin. ²³ He that hates me, hates my Father also. ²⁴ If I had not done among them the works which no other one has done, they would not have had sin; but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father. ²⁵ But [they do this] that the word written in their law may be fulfilled, They hated me without cause. ²⁶ But when the Comforter has come, whom I will send you from the Father, the Spirit of truth which proceeds from the Father, he shall testify of me; ²⁷ and you shall also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.