When I was with them in the world, I kept them in Your name. [Those] whom You have given Me I guarded; and not one of them is lost except the son of perdition, so that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

But even now, the ax is laid to the root of the trees. Therefore every tree not producing good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

But He answered and said, "Every plant which My heavenly Father has not planted will be uprooted.

And seeing a fig tree by the road, He went up to it and found nothing on it but leaves, and said to it, "May fruit no longer come from you ever again." And immediately the fig tree withered away.

But those on the rock are they that, whenever they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, who believe for a while and in time of testing fall away.

Then he said to the vinedresser, 'Look, for three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and I haven't found [any]. Cut it down; why does it even waste the ground?'

And if it produces fruit, [fine]. But if not, in the coming [year], you can cut it down.'"

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become [as] sounding brass or a clashing cymbal.

For the earth which drinks the rain often coming upon it, and bears suitable vegetation for those on account of whom it is cultivated, receives a blessing from God;

but if it bears thorns and thistles, it is worthless and near to being cursed, of which the end [is] for burning.

They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us; but [they went out] in order that they might be made manifest, that none of them were of us.

But let the faithful hold on his own way, and let him that is pure of hands take courage.

You shall sprinkle me with hyssop, and I shall be purified; You shall wash me, and I shall be made whiter than snow.

Turn away Your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities.

Cast me not away from Your presence; and remove not Your Holy Spirit from me.

[Then] will I teach transgressors Your ways; and ungodly men shall turn to You.

But the ways of the righteous shine like light; they go forth and shine, until the day has fully come.

Therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be taken away; and this is his blessing, when I have taken away his sin; when they have broken to pieces all the stones of the altars as fine dust, and their trees shall not remain, and their idols shall be cut off, as a thicket afar off.

and the poor shall rejoice with joy because of the Lord, and they that had no hope among men shall be filled with joy.

Let us follow on to know the Lord: we shall find Him ready as the morning, and He will come to us as the early and latter rain to the earth.

He shall sit to melt and purify as it were silver, and as it were gold: and He shall purify the sons of Levi, and refine them as gold and silver, and they shall offer to the Lord an offering in righteousness.

whose winnowing shovel is in His hand, and He will thoroughly purge His threshing floor, and He will gather His wheat into the barn; but the chaff He will burn up with unquenchable fire."

For whoever has, to him more shall be given, and he shall be in abundance; but whoever does not have, even what he has shall be taken away from him.

Another parable He spoke to them: "The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took and mixed in with three measures of meal, until the whole was leavened."

And not only that, but we also rejoice in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces endurance;

And hope does not put to shame, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.

For our momentary light affliction is working out for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory,

while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are for a season, but the things which are not seen last forever.

And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all perception,

having been filled with the fruits of righteousness which are by Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

Now [may] the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

He who calls you is faithful, who also will do [this].

who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from every lawless deed and purify for Himself a people as [His] own possession, zealous for good works.

For the earth which drinks the rain often coming upon it, and bears suitable vegetation for those on account of whom it is cultivated, receives a blessing from God;

For they indeed for a few days were disciplining us, as seemed best to them, but He for our profit, in order to partake of His holiness.

Now no discipline seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, later it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those having been trained by it.

looking diligently lest anyone fall from the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness growing up cause trouble, and through this many be defiled;

As many as I love, I rebuke and discipline. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

By this My Father is glorified, that you may bear much fruit; and you will become My disciples.

You did not choose Me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, so that whatever you may ask the Father in My name He may give to you.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

gentleness, self-control--against such things there is no law.

having been filled with the fruits of righteousness which are by Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

because of the hope being laid up for you in [the] heavens, in which you heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel,

just as also you learned from Epaphras, our beloved fellow servant, who is a faithful minister of Christ for you,

On account of this we also, since the day we heard, do not cease praying for you, and asking that you may be filled with the full knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;