TSK · Matthew 13:23

¶ Blessed [is] the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.

A wise [man] will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:

Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?

Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance:

‹Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by› [his] ‹fruit.›

‹And these are they which are sown on good ground; such as hear the word, and receive› [it], ‹and bring forth fruit, some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some an hundred.›

‹For a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit; neither doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.›

‹And if it bear fruit,› [well]: ‹and if not,› [then] ‹after that thou shalt cut it down.›

‹He that is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore hear› [them] ‹not, because ye are not of God.›

¶ ‹I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.›

‹Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee.›

These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.

Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for [your] food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;)

Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.

Which is come unto you, as [it is] in all the world; and bringeth forth fruit, as [it doth] also in you, since the day ye heard [of it], and knew the grace of God in truth:

¶ Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort [you] by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, [so] ye would abound more and more.

¶ But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:

For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God:

By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of [our] lips giving thanks to his name.

¶ Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,

But grow in grace, and [in] the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him [be] glory both now and for ever. Amen.