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Colossians 1:6
that has come to you. Just as in the entire world this gospel is bearing fruit and growing, so it has also been bearing fruit and growing among you from the first day you heard it and understood the grace of God in truth.
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Galatians 5:22-26
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,gentleness, and self- control. Against such things there is no law.Now those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.If we live by the Spirit, let us also behave in accordance with the Spirit.Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, being jealous of one another.
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Hebrews 10:36
For you need endurance in order to do God’s will and so receive what is promised.
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Deuteronomy 30:6
The LORD your God will also cleanse your heart and the hearts of your descendants so that you may love him with all your mind and being and so that you may live.
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Matthew 24:13
But the person who endures to the end will be saved.
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Luke 11:28
But he replied,“ Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it!”
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Colossians 1:10
so that you may live worthily of the Lord and please him in all respects– bearing fruit in every good deed, growing in the knowledge of God,
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Luke 6:45
The good person out of the good treasury of his heart produces good, and the evil person out of his evil treasury produces evil, for his mouth speaks from what fills his heart.
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John 14:15
“ If you love me, you will obey my commandments.
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Romans 6:22
But now, freed from sin and enslaved to God, you have your benefit leading to sanctification, and the end is eternal life.
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Philippians 1:11
filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ to the glory and praise of God.
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1John 2:3
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John 15:10
If you obey my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father’s commandments and remain in his love.
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Romans 7:18
For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For I want to do the good, but I cannot do it.
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Romans 2:7
eternal life to those who by perseverance in good works seek glory and honor and immortality,
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1 Peter 2 1-1 Peter 2 2
So get rid of all evil and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander.And yearn like newborn infants for pure, spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up to salvation,
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James 1:22-25
But be sure you live out the message and do not merely listen to it and so deceive yourselves.For if someone merely listens to the message and does not live it out, he is like someone who gazes at his own face in a mirror.For he gazes at himself and then goes out and immediately forgets what sort of person he was.But the one who peers into the perfect law of liberty and fixes his attention there, and does not become a forgetful listener but one who lives it out– he will be blessed in what he does.
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James 1:16-19
Do not be led astray, my dear brothers and sisters.All generous giving and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or the slightest hint of change.By his sovereign plan he gave us birth through the message of truth, that we would be a kind of firstfruits of all he created.Understand this, my dear brothers and sisters! Let every person be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger.
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Romans 7:4
So, my brothers and sisters, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you could be joined to another, to the one who was raised from the dead, to bear fruit to God.
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James 5:7-8
So be patient, brothers and sisters, until the Lord’s return. Think of how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the ground and is patient for it until it receives the early and late rains.You also be patient and strengthen your hearts, for the Lord’s return is near.
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1 Corinthians 7 19
Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing. Instead, keeping God’s commandments is what counts.
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Philippians 3:13-15
Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself to have attained this. Instead I am single- minded: Forgetting the things that are behind and reaching out for the things that are ahead,with this goal in mind, I strive toward the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.Therefore let those of us who are“ perfect” embrace this point of view. If you think otherwise, God will reveal to you the error of your ways.
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Ezekiel 36:26-27
I will give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will remove the heart of stone from your body and give you a heart of flesh.I will put my Spirit within you; I will take the initiative and you will obey my statutes and carefully observe my regulations.
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Hebrews 2:1
Therefore we must pay closer attention to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.
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Jeremiah 31:33
“ But I will make a new covenant with the whole nation of Israel after I plant them back in the land,” says the LORD.“ I will put my law within them and write it on their hearts and minds. I will be their God and they will be my people.
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Jeremiah 32:29
The Babylonian soldiers that are attacking this city will break into it and set it on fire. They will burn it down along with the houses where people have made me angry by offering sacrifices to the god Baal and by pouring out drink offerings to other gods on their rooftops.
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Jeremiah 15:16
As your words came to me I drank them in, and they filled my heart with joy and happiness because I belong to you.
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Psalms 119:11
In my heart I store up your words, so I might not sin against you.
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Proverbs 3:1
My child, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments,
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Job 23:11-12
My feet have followed his steps closely; I have kept to his way and have not turned aside.I have not departed from the commands of his lips; I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my allotted portion.
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James 1:4
And let endurance have its perfect effect, so that you will be perfect and complete, not deficient in anything.
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Psalms 119:127-129
For this reason I love your commands more than gold, even purest gold.For this reason I carefully follow all your precepts. I hate all deceitful actions.פ( Pe)Your rules are marvelous. Therefore I observe them.
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Psalms 51:10
Create for me a pure heart, O God! Renew a resolute spirit within me!
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Ephesians 2:8
For by grace you are saved through faith, and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God;
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Psalms 1:1-3
How blessed is the one who does not follow the advice of the wicked, or stand in the pathway with sinners, or sit in the assembly of scoffers!Instead he finds pleasure in obeying the LORD’s commands; he meditates on his commands day and night.He is like a tree planted by flowing streams; it yields its fruit at the proper time, and its leaves never fall off. He succeeds in everything he attempts.
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Hebrews 6:11-12
But we passionately want each of you to demonstrate the same eagerness for the fulfillment of your hope until the end,so that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and perseverance inherit the promises.
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John 14:21-24
The person who has my commandments and obeys them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will reveal myself to him.”“ Lord,” Judas( not Judas Iscariot) said,“ what has happened that you are going to reveal yourself to us and not to the world?”Jesus replied,“ If anyone loves me, he will obey my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and take up residence with him.The person who does not love me does not obey my words. And the word you hear is not mine, but the Father’s who sent me.