While I was with them in the world, I cared for them in Your name. Those whom You gave Me I have guarded; and not one of them is lost except the son of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

And now already the ax is laid to the root of the trees. Therefore any tree which does not bear good fruit is cut off 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 came to it and found nothing on it but leaves, and said to it, Let fruit no longer grow on you forever. And immediately the fig tree dried up.

And the ones on the rock are those who, when they hear, receive the Word with joy; and these have no root, who believe for a while and in time of trial draw back away.

Then he said to the keeper of his vineyard, Behold, for three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree and find none. Cut it down; why does it encumber the ground?

And see if it produces fruit. But if not, after that you can cut it down.

If I were to speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become as sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.

For the earth which drinks in the rain that often comes upon it, and bears herbs useful for those by whom it is cultivated, receives blessing from God;

but if it bears thorns and briars, it is unfit and near to being cursed; its end is to be burned up.

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 that they might be made manifest, that not all of them are of us.

Yet the righteous will take hold on his way, and he who has clean hands shall increase strength.

Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

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

Cast me not away from Your presence, and take not Your Holy Spirit from me.

Then I will teach transgressors Your ways, and sinners shall be converted to You.

But the path of the just is as the brightness of dawn, that keeps getting brighter until it is fully daytime.

Therefore by this shall the iniquity of Jacob be atoned; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he makes all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in pieces, the groves and idols shall not stand.

And the meek shall increase their joy in Jehovah, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

Then we shall know, we who follow on to know Jehovah. His going forth is established as the dawn. And He shall come to us as the rain, as the latter and former rain to the earth.

And He shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver; and He shall purify the sons of Levi and purge them like gold and like silver, that they may draw near to Jehovah with an offering in righteousness.

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

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

Another parable He spoke to them: The kingdom of Heaven is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal till the whole was leavened.

And not only that, but we also exult in afflictions, knowing that affliction produces perseverance;

And hope does not make ashamed, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through 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 the called according to His purpose.

For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is achieving for us a surpassing and eternal weight of glory,

while we do not contemplate the things which are seen, but the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in full true knowledge and all discernment,

being filled with the fruits of righteousness through 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 preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

He who calls you is faithful, who also will do it.

who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from all lawlessness and purify a people for His own possession, zealous unto good works.

For the earth which drinks in the rain that often comes upon it, and bears herbs useful for those by whom it is cultivated, receives blessing from God;

For they indeed for a few days disciplined us as seemed best to them, but He for our profit, that we may be partakers of His holiness.

Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised by it.

watching carefully that no one fall short of the grace of God; that no root of bitterness springing up cause trouble, and through this many become defiled;

As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Therefore be zealous and repent.

In this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; thus you will be 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, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you.

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

meekness, self-control. Against such there is no law.

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

because of the hope being laid up for you in Heaven, of which you heard before in the Word of the Truth of the gospel,

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

For this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to ask that you may be filled with the full true knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;