Psalms 128:2

Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.

But you be strong, and don’t let your hands be slack; for your work will be rewarded.”

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.

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.

if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

holding up the word of life, that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ, that I didn’t run in vain nor labor in vain.

Now he who plants and he who waters are the same, but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

Cast your burden on Yahweh and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.

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.

Now if Timothy comes, see that he is with you without fear, for he does the work of the Lord, as I also do.

By the river on its bank, on this side and on that side, will grow every tree for food, whose leaf won’t wither, neither will its fruit fail. It will produce new fruit every month, because its waters issue out of the sanctuary. Its fruit will be for food, and its leaf for healing.”

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

rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving.

make you complete in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

They will still produce fruit in old age. They will be full of sap and green,

“ ‘Your mother was like a vine in your blood, planted by the waters. It was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.

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.

His master saw that Yahweh was with him, and that Yahweh made all that he did prosper in his hand.

For he will never be shaken. The righteous will be remembered forever.

that no one would be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed to this task.

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,

For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence firm to the end,

There was no king like him before him, who turned to Yahweh with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; and there was none like him who arose after him.

The keeper of the prison didn’t look after anything that was under his hand, because Yahweh was with him; and that which he did, Yahweh made it prosper.

He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that produces its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. Whatever he does shall prosper.

One who works his land will have an abundance of food; but one who chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty.

When the sun had risen, they were scorched. Because they had no root, they withered away.

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

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

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.

When Naomi saw that she was determined to go with her, she stopped urging her.

Moreover your servant is warned by them. In keeping them there is great reward.

Tell the righteous “Good!” For they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.

and they will spring up among the grass, as willows by the watercourses.

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

in the middle of its street. On this side of the river and on that was the tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruits, yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

Yahweh your God will make you prosperous in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your body, in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, for good; for Yahweh will again rejoice over you for good, as he rejoiced over your fathers,

yet through the scent of water it will bud, and sprout boughs like a plant.

Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.

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

You hide your face; they are troubled. You take away their breath; they die and return to the dust.

Yahweh’s blessing brings wealth, and he adds no trouble to it.

There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God.

All go to one place. All are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

If a man doesn’t remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned.

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

For though I am absent in the flesh, yet I am with you in the spirit, rejoicing and seeing your order, and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.

For this cause I also, when I couldn’t stand it any longer, sent that I might know your faith, for fear that by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor would have been in vain.

Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

but you shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”

all flesh would perish together, and man would turn again to dust.

But as for me, I am like a green olive tree in God’s house. I trust in God’s loving kindness forever and ever.

and might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that didn’t make their hearts loyal, whose spirit was not steadfast with God.

Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward.

In all hard work there is profit, but the talk of the lips leads only to poverty.

Behold, that which I have seen to be good and proper is for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labor, in which he labors under the sun, all the days of his life which God has given him; for this is his portion.

Though a sinner commits crimes a hundred times, and lives long, yet surely I know that it will be better with those who fear God, who are reverent before him.

This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.

It was planted in a good soil by many waters, that it might produce branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a good vine.” ’

Woe to you, you who are full now, for you will be hungry. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.

Therefore, my brothers, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, stand firm in the Lord in this way, my beloved.

As valleys they are spread out, as gardens by the riverside, as aloes which Yahweh has planted, as cedar trees beside the waters.

You shall not eat it, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, when you do that which is right in Yahweh’s eyes.

My root is spread out to the waters. The dew lies all night on my branch.

You turn man to destruction, saying, “Return, you children of men.”

For he knows how we are made. He remembers that we are dust.

Man goes out to his work, to his labor until the evening.

He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who chases fantasies is void of understanding.

An abundance of food is in poor people’s fields, but injustice sweeps it away.

Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity, for that is your portion in life, and in your labor in which you labor under the sun.

Therefore Yahweh will cut off from Israel head and tail, palm branch and reed, in one day.

Even so, every good tree produces good fruit; but the corrupt tree produces evil fruit.

Therefore as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; so death passed to all men, because all sinned.

The first man is of the earth, made of dust. The second man is the Lord from heaven.

For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: “If anyone is not willing to work, don’t let him eat.”

For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.

Therefore, beloved, seeing that you look for these things, be diligent to be found in peace, without defect and blameless in his sight.

Yahweh God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.

Let the creditor seize all that he has. Let strangers plunder the fruit of his labor.

Whatever my eyes desired, I didn’t keep from them. I didn’t withhold my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced because of all my labor, and this was my portion from all my labor.

Also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy good in all his labor, is the gift of God.

Yahweh has sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, “Surely I will no more give your grain to be food for your enemies, and foreigners will not drink your new wine, for which you have labored,

Therefore the Lord Yahweh says, “Behold, my servants will eat, but you will be hungry; behold, my servants will drink, but you will be thirsty. Behold, my servants will rejoice, but you will be disappointed;

“that it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth.”

You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are dust, and you shall return to dust.”

You shall be blessed in the fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the fruit of your animals, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock.

Yahweh will grant you abundant prosperity in the fruit of your body, in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give you.

You will plant vineyards and dress them, but you will neither drink of the wine, nor harvest, because worms will eat them.

They will eat the fruit of your livestock and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed. They also won’t leave you grain, new wine, oil, the increase of your livestock, or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.

Behold, an old man came from his work out of the field at evening. Now the man was from the hill country of Ephraim, and he lived in Gibeah; but the men of the place were Benjamites.

Naomi her mother-in-law said to her, “My daughter, shall I not seek rest for you, that it may be well with you?

Wealth gained dishonestly dwindles away, but he who gathers by hand makes it grow.

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

Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which head or tail, palm branch or rush, may do.

“Should you reign, because you strive to excel in cedar? Didn’t your father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him.

Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan swore to them and to their men, saying, “Don’t be afraid to serve the Chaldeans. Dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it will be well with you.

Whether it is good, or whether it is bad, we will obey the voice of Yahweh our God, to whom we send you; that it may be well with us, when we obey the voice of Yahweh our God.”

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.