James 3:18

“I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.

Also delight yourself in Yahweh, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,

Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit.

Whatever you will ask in my name, I will do it, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

Know that Yahweh, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.

For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

Those who are wise will shine as the brightness of the expanse. Those who turn many to righteousness will shine as the stars forever and ever.

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.

let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.

In the multitude of words there is no lack of disobedience, but he who restrains his lips does wisely.

Let’s acknowledge Yahweh. Let’s press on to know Yahweh. As surely as the sun rises, Yahweh will appear. He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain that waters the earth.”

You who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth:

“ ‘Your hands have framed me and fashioned me altogether, yet you destroy me.

For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb.

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a quick temper displays folly.

Rain, you heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness. Let the earth open, that it may produce salvation, and let it cause righteousness to spring up with it. I, Yahweh, have created it.

For as the rain comes down and the snow from the sky, and doesn’t return there, but waters the earth, and makes it grow and bud, and gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater;

For Yahweh says to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, “Break up your fallow ground, and don’t sow among thorns.

For he will be as a tree planted by the waters, who spreads out its roots by the river, and will not fear when heat comes, but its leaf will be green, and will not be concerned in the year of drought. It won’t cease from yielding fruit.

Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its saltiness, with what will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.”

Jesus answered them, “Didn’t I choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?”

I don’t speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen. But that the Scripture may be fulfilled, ‘He who eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me.’

“In this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples.

If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God.

Now may he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food, 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, to the glory and praise of God.

which has come to you, even as it is in all the world and is bearing fruit and growing, as it does in you also, since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth,

Let our people also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they may not be unfruitful.

Don’t deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, for false witnesses have risen up against me, such as breathe out cruelty.

Yahweh will fulfill that which concerns me. Your loving kindness, Yahweh, endures forever. Don’t forsake the works of your own hands.

She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her. Happy is everyone who retains her.

in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who always sows discord.

A truthful witness will not lie, but a false witness pours out lies.

A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who pours out lies shall not go free.

Cast your bread on the waters; for you shall find it after many days.

Seek Yahweh while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.

It will happen in that day, I will respond,” says Yahweh, “I will respond to the heavens, and they will respond to the earth;

He appointed twelve, that they might be with him, and that he might send them out to preach,

When it was day, he called his disciples, and from them he chose twelve, whom he also named apostles:

Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can’t bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me.

For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

If it is possible, as much as it is up to you, be at peace with all men.

Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.

Now the deeds of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

“Be angry, and don’t sin.” Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath,

bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.

Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.

The things which you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit the same things to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also.

Let him turn away from evil and do good. Let him seek peace and pursue it.

promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him.

My soul has had her dwelling too long with him who hates peace.

Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, for I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to you.

The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life. He who is wise wins souls.

One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty; one who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city.

For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, and streams on the dry ground. I will pour my Spirit on your descendants, and my blessing on your offspring:

Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.

For they sow the wind, and they will reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The stalk will yield no head. If it does yield, strangers will swallow it up.

They make promises, swearing falsely in making covenants. Therefore judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.

Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to kindness. Break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek Yahweh, until he comes and rains righteousness on you.

that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.

What was sown on the good ground, this is he who hears the word, and understands it, who most certainly bears fruit, and produces, some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.”

He set another parable before them, saying, “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field,

Now I don’t desire to have you unaware, brothers, that I often planned to come to you, and was hindered so far, that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among the rest of the Gentiles.

For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father;

Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be arrogant, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;

All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

For we all stumble in many things. Anyone who doesn’t stumble in word is a perfect person, able to bridle the whole body also.

seeing your pure behavior in fear.

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts. Always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear,

We love him, because he first loved us.

Peace be within your walls, and prosperity within your palaces.

Wicked people earn deceitful wages, but one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.

He who spares his words has knowledge. He who is even tempered is a man of understanding.

Do horses run on the rocky crags? Does one plow there with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness;

You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

and to respect and honor them in love for their work’s sake. Be at peace among yourselves.

Your hands have made me and formed me. Give me understanding, that I may learn your commandments.

a false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.

Blessed are you who sow beside all waters, who send out the feet of the ox and the donkey.

“For the seed of peace and the vine will yield its fruit, and the ground will give its increase, and the heavens will give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to inherit all these things.

He said, “God’s Kingdom is as if a man should cast seed on the earth,

If a son of peace is there, your peace will rest on him; but if not, it will return to you.

He who reaps receives wages and gathers fruit to eternal life; that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.

Only let your way of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News;

for the anger of man doesn’t produce the righteousness of God.

He who trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous shall flourish as the green leaf.