Matthew 7:16

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

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

Even a child makes himself known by his doings, whether his work is pure, and whether it is right.

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.”

As the proverb of the ancients says, ‘Out of the wicked comes wickedness;’ but my hand will not be on you.

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

Hate evil, love good, and establish justice in the courts. It may be that Yahweh, the God of Armies, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”

“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.

For there is no good tree that produces rotten fruit; nor again a rotten tree that produces good fruit.

Can a fig tree, my brothers, yield olives, or a vine figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh water.

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded.

The way of the guilty is devious, but the conduct of the innocent is upright.

Therefore by their fruits you will know them.

You blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and of the platter, that its outside may become clean also.

Even now the ax also lies at the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that doesn’t produce good fruit is cut down, and thrown into the fire.”

For each tree is known by its own fruit. For people don’t gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather grapes from a bramble bush.

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let’s cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking.

“Jael shall be blessed above women, the wife of Heber the Kenite; blessed shall she be above women in the tent.

Samuel came to Saul; and Saul said to him, “You are blessed by Yahweh! I have performed the commandment of Yahweh.”

He went up from there to Bethel. As he was going up by the way, some youths came out of the city and mocked him, and said to him, “Go up, you baldy! Go up, you baldy!”

He did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, and walked in all the way of David his father, and didn’t turn away to the right hand or to the left.

A revelation is within my heart about the disobedience of the wicked: “There is no fear of God before his eyes.”

Behold, I was born in iniquity. My mother conceived me in sin.

The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

For you will eat the labor of your hands. You will be happy, and it will be well with you.

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

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

She considers a field, and buys it. With the fruit of her hands, she plants a vineyard.

Give her of the fruit of her hands! Let her works praise her in the gates!

Therefore it will happen that when the Lord has performed his whole work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the willful proud heart of the king of Assyria, and the insolence of his arrogant looks.

Yet I had planted you a noble vine, a pure and faithful seed. How then have you turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me?

Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long will your evil thoughts lodge within you?

Yet the land will be desolate because of those who dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.

Now I tell you, withdraw from these men, and leave them alone. For if this counsel or this work is of men, it will be overthrown.

Peter got up and went with them. When he had come, they brought him into the upper room. All the widows stood by him weeping, and showing the coats and garments which Dorcas had made while she was with them.

Greet Mary, who labored much for us.

Greet Tryphaena and Tryphosa, who labor in the Lord. Greet Persis, the beloved, who labored much in the Lord.

Not that I seek for the gift, but I seek for the fruit that increases to your account.

but with good works, which is appropriate for women professing godliness.

In the same way also there are good works that are obvious, and those that are otherwise can’t be hidden.

constant friction of people of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. Withdraw yourself from such.

For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.

I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write, ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.’ ” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors; for their works follow with them.”

God said, “Let the earth yield grass, herbs yielding seeds, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with their seeds in it, on the earth;” and it was so.

For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and he will drink no wine nor strong drink. He will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb.

All who heard them laid them up in their heart, saying, “What then will this child be?” The hand of the Lord was with him.

Because you kept my command to endure, I also will keep you from the hour of testing which is to come on the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.