Mark 4:27

that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God,

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.

but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him who is the head, Christ,

Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge;

as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can’t find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.

The wind blows where it wants to, and you hear its sound, but don’t know where it comes from and where it is going. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”

Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

When I tried to understand this, it was too painful for me,

Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!

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.

to him be the glory in the assembly and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen.

remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and perseverance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.

But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth,

As you don’t know what is the way of the wind, nor how the bones grow in the womb of her who is with child; even so you don’t know the work of God who does all.

This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.

seeing it is God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him,

Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be a loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ

Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.

for indeed you do it toward all the brothers who are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brothers, that you abound more and more;

And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me for his heavenly Kingdom. To him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

seeing that his divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and virtue,

Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be healthy, even as your soul prospers.

“I know your works, your love, faith, service, patient endurance, and that your last works are more than the first.

who does great things that can’t be fathomed, marvelous things without number;

They shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of Sheba. Men shall pray for him continually. They shall bless him all day long.

How great are your works, Yahweh! Your thoughts are very deep.

The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree. He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

My frame wasn’t hidden from you, when I was made in secret, woven together in the depths of the earth.

I will be like the dew to Israel. He will blossom like the lily, and send down his roots like Lebanon.

But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out, and leap like calves of the stall.

Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Amen.’

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.”

Immediately the father of the child cried out with tears, “I believe. Help my unbelief!”

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another.

First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, that your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.

But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were delivered.

For of him, and through him, and to him are all things. To him be the glory for ever! Amen.

Brothers, don’t be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.

Let all that you do be done in love.

not boasting beyond proper limits in other men’s labors, but having hope that as your faith grows, we will be abundantly enlarged by you in our sphere of influence,

I thank my God whenever I remember you,

So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,

Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, to God who alone is wise, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.

but has now been revealed by the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the Good News.

You therefore, my child, be strengthened in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.

I thank my God always, making mention of you in my prayers,

Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently,

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

Grace to you and peace be multiplied in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord,

For thus you will be richly supplied with the entrance into the eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

to God our Savior, who alone is wise, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and forever. Amen.

and he made us to be a Kingdom, priests to his God and Father—to him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

“I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were cold or hot.

Yet the righteous will hold to his way. He who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.

We can’t reach the Almighty. He is exalted in power. In justice and great righteousness, he will not oppress.

They go from strength to strength. Every one of them appears before God in Zion.

They are planted in Yahweh’s house. They will flourish in our God’s courts.

But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light that shines more and more until the perfect day.

That which is, is far off and exceedingly deep. Who can find it out?

then I saw all the work of God, that man can’t find out the work that is done under the sun, because however much a man labors to seek it out, yet he won’t find it. Yes even though a wise man thinks he can comprehend it, he won’t be able to find it.

Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, the Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn’t faint. He isn’t weary. His understanding is unsearchable.

But it was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for this, your brother, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.’ ”

The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith.”

They therefore were asking him, “How were your eyes opened?”

Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

I always thank my God concerning you, for the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus;

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

It is even right for me to think this way on behalf of all of you, because I have you in my heart, because both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the Good News, you all are partakers with me of grace.

This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment,

For what thanksgiving can we render again to God for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice for your sakes before our God,

May the Lord make you to increase and abound in love toward one another, and toward all men, even as we also do toward you,

We are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers, even as it is appropriate, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each and every one of you toward one another abounds,

I think it right, as long as I am in this tent, to stir you up by reminding you,

For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.

But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.