TSK · Matthew 13:23

Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the wicked, Nor standeth in the way of sinners, Nor sitteth in the seat of scoffers:

That the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; And that the man of understanding may attain unto sound counsels:

Cast away from you all your transgressions, wherein 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 fruit worthy of repentance:

Either make the tree good, and its fruit good; or make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by its fruit.

And those are they that were sown upon the good ground; such as hear the word, and accept it, and bear fruit, thirtyfold, and sixtyfold, and a hundredfold.

For there is no good tree that bringeth forth corrupt fruit; nor again a corrupt tree that bringeth forth good fruit.

and if it bear fruit thenceforth, [well] ; but if not, thou shalt cut it down.

He that is of God heareth the words of God: for this cause ye hear [them] not, because ye are not of God.

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

Now they know that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are from thee:

Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of the mind, examining the Scriptures daily, whether these things were so.

And he that supplieth seed to the sower and bread for food, shall supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness:

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

which is come unto you; even as it is also in all the world bearing fruit and increasing, as [it doth] in you also, since the day ye heard and knew the grace of God in truth;

Finally then, brethren, we beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as ye received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, even as ye do walk,--that ye abound more and more.

But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, for that God chose you from the beginning unto salvation in sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:

For the land which hath drunk the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them for whose sake it is also tilled, receiveth blessing from God:

Through him then let us offer up a sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of lips which make confession to his name.

Putting away therefore all wickedness, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,

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