Romans 11:17

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:

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

For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

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.

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

“It will happen afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your old men will dream dreams. Your young men will see visions.

“Even now the ax lies at the root of the trees. Therefore every tree that doesn’t produce good fruit is cut down, and cast into the fire.

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

but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

But he answered, “Every plant which my heavenly Father didn’t plant will be uprooted.

that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit,

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.

But I trust in your loving kindness. My heart rejoices in your salvation.

Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise. Give thanks to him, and bless his name.

Who has believed our message? To whom has Yahweh’s arm been revealed?

Then he said, “These are the two anointed ones who stand by the Lord of the whole earth.”

that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spoke, “Lord, who has believed our report? To whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”

If you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring and heirs according to promise.

In him you also, having heard the word of the truth, the Good News of your salvation—in whom, having also believed, you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,

You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins,

But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off are made near in the blood of Christ.

“For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days,” says the Lord; “I will put my laws into their mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

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.

He will guide the humble in justice. He will teach the humble his way.

They will not labor in vain nor give birth for calamity; for they are the offspring of Yahweh’s blessed and their descendants with them.

It will happen that whoever will call on Yahweh’s name shall be saved; for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be those who escape, as Yahweh has said, and among the remnant, those whom Yahweh calls.

Every tree that doesn’t grow good fruit is cut down, and thrown into the fire.

You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.

It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.

Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.

You are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘All the families of the earth will be blessed through your offspring.’

See then the goodness and severity of God. Toward those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness; otherwise you also will be cut off.

Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,

You therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand, beware, lest being carried away with the error of the wicked, you fall from your own steadfastness.

As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

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

Your wife will be as a fruitful vine in the innermost parts of your house, your children like olive plants around your table.

I create the fruit of the lips: Peace, peace, to him who is far off and to him who is near,” says Yahweh; “and I will heal them.”

Yahweh called your name, “A green olive tree, beautiful with goodly fruit.” With the noise of a great roar he has kindled fire on it, and its branches are broken.

Then I asked him, “What are these two olive trees on the right side of the lamp stand and on the left side of it?”

His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. He will gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire.”

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.

For if you were cut out of that which is by nature a wild olive tree, and were grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree, how much more will these, which are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?

by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.

but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house. We are his house, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.

Therefore let’s also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let’s run with perseverance the race that is set before us,

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

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

Behold, Yahweh’s eye is on those who fear him, on those who hope in his loving kindness,

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.

you who stand in Yahweh’s house, in the courts of our God’s house.

The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master’s crib; but Israel doesn’t know. My people don’t consider.”

But now Yahweh who created you, Jacob, and he who formed you, Israel, says: “Don’t be afraid, for I have redeemed you. I have called you by your name. You are mine.

everyone who is called by my name, and whom I have created for my glory, whom I have formed, yes, whom I have made.’ ”

Then your people will all be righteous. They will inherit the land forever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified.

Yes, the stork in the sky knows her appointed times. The turtledove, the swallow, and the crane observe the time of their coming; but my people don’t know Yahweh’s law.

For whoever has, to him will be given, and he will have abundance, but whoever doesn’t have, from him will be taken away even that which he has.

The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will gather out of his Kingdom all things that cause stumbling, and those who do iniquity,

God, who knows the heart, testified about them, giving them the Holy Spirit, just like he did to us.

Whom he predestined, those he also called. Whom he called, those he also justified. Whom he justified, those he also glorified.

You will say then, “Branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.”

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.

We also all once lived among them in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

that the Gentiles are fellow heirs and fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of his promise in Christ Jesus through the Good News,

that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, to the end that you, being rooted and grounded in love,

There is one body and one Spirit, even as you also were called in one hope of your calling,

For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

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

But because you are partakers of Christ’s sufferings, rejoice, that at the revelation of his glory you also may rejoice with exceeding joy.

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.

They went out from us, but they didn’t belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.

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

“Therefore I tell you, God’s Kingdom will be taken away from you, and will be given to a nation producing its fruit.

For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all who are far off, even as many as the Lord our God will call to himself.”

You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,

Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

God give you of the dew of the sky, of the fatness of the earth, and plenty of grain and new wine.

a land of wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of olive trees and honey;

If there is a tenth left in it, that also will in turn be consumed, as a terebinth, and as an oak, whose stump remains when they are cut down; so the holy seed is its stock.”

When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off. The women will come and set them on fire, for they are a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show them no favor.

One thousand will flee at the threat of one. At the threat of five, you will flee until you are left like a beacon on the top of a mountain, and like a banner on a hill.

It will happen, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, ‘As Yahweh lives;’ even as they taught my people to swear by Baal, then they will be built up in the middle of my people.

Then the men feared Yahweh exceedingly; and they offered a sacrifice to Yahweh, and made vows.

and two olive trees by it, one on the right side of the bowl, and the other on the left side of it.”

But they didn’t all listen to the glad news. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our report?”

If the first fruit is holy, so is the lump. If the root is holy, so are the branches.

for if God didn’t spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you.

Yes, it has been their good pleasure, and they are their debtors. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, they owe it to them also to serve them in fleshly things.

God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.

“We, being Jews by nature, and not Gentile sinners,

for your partnership in furtherance of the Good News from the first day until now;

giving thanks to the Father, who made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light,

and not holding firmly to the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and ligaments, grows with God’s growth.

Those who have believing masters, let them not despise them because they are brothers, but rather let them serve them, because those who partake of the benefit are believing and beloved. Teach and exhort these things.

Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession: Jesus,

These are the two olive trees and the two lamp stands, standing before the Lord of the earth.

You crown the year with your bounty. Your carts overflow with abundance.

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.