Luke 8:15 “But the seed in the good earth—these are the good-hearts who seize the Word and hold on no matter what, sticking with it until there’s a harvest.

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The Message - “But the seed in the good earth—these are the good-hearts who seize the Word and hold on no matter what, sticking with it until there’s a harvest.
新标点和合本 - 那落在好土里的，就是人听了道，持守在诚实善良的心里，并且忍耐着结实。”
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 那落在好土里的，就是人听了道，并用纯真善良的心持守它，耐心等候结果实。”
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 那落在好土里的，就是人听了道，并用纯真善良的心持守它，耐心等候结果实。”
当代译本 - 种子落在沃土里则是指人听了道，用诚实良善的心坚忍持守，最终结出果实。
圣经新译本 - 但那落在好土里的，就是人用诚实良善的心来听，把道持守住，忍耐着结出果实。
中文标准译本 - 那‘好土壤’，是这样的人：他们听了这话语，以诚实美善的心持守它，并且在忍耐中结出果实。
现代标点和合本 - 那落在好土里的，就是人听了道，持守在诚实善良的心里，并且忍耐着结实。
和合本（拼音版） - 那落在好土里的，就是人听了道，持守在诚实、善良的心里，并且忍耐着结实。”
New International Version - But the seed on good soil stands for those with a noble and good heart, who hear the word, retain it, and by persevering produce a crop.
New International Reader's Version - But the seed on good soil stands for those with an honest and good heart. Those people hear the message. They keep it in their hearts. They remain faithful and produce a good crop.
English Standard Version - As for that in the good soil, they are those who, hearing the word, hold it fast in an honest and good heart, and bear fruit with patience.
New Living Translation - And the seeds that fell on the good soil represent honest, good-hearted people who hear God’s word, cling to it, and patiently produce a huge harvest.
Christian Standard Bible - But the seed in the good ground — these are the ones who, having heard the word with an honest and good heart, hold on to it and by enduring, produce fruit.
New American Standard Bible - But the seed in the good soil, these are the ones who have heard the word with a good and virtuous heart, and hold it firmly, and produce fruit with perseverance.
New King James Version - But the ones that fell on the good ground are those who, having heard the word with a noble and good heart, keep it and bear fruit with patience.
Amplified Bible - But as for that seed in the good soil, these are the ones who have heard the word with a good and noble heart, and hold on to it tightly, and bear fruit with patience.
American Standard Version - And that in the good ground, these are such as in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it fast, and bring forth fruit with patience.
King James Version - But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.
New English Translation - But as for the seed that landed on good soil, these are the ones who, after hearing the word, cling to it with an honest and good heart, and bear fruit with steadfast endurance.
World English Bible - Those in the good ground, these are those who with an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and produce fruit with perseverance.
新標點和合本 - 那落在好土裏的，就是人聽了道，持守在誠實善良的心裏，並且忍耐着結實。」
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 那落在好土裏的，就是人聽了道，並用純真善良的心持守它，耐心等候結果實。」
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 那落在好土裏的，就是人聽了道，並用純真善良的心持守它，耐心等候結果實。」
當代譯本 - 種子落在沃土裡則是指人聽了道，用誠實良善的心堅忍持守，最終結出果實。
聖經新譯本 - 但那落在好土裡的，就是人用誠實良善的心來聽，把道持守住，忍耐著結出果實。
呂振中譯本 - 但那在好土裏的、是那以誠實而善良之心聽了道的；他們持守着，又在堅忍中結實。
中文標準譯本 - 那『好土壤』，是這樣的人：他們聽了這話語，以誠實美善的心持守它，並且在忍耐中結出果實。
現代標點和合本 - 那落在好土裡的，就是人聽了道，持守在誠實善良的心裡，並且忍耐著結實。
文理和合譯本 - 沃壤者、猶人聽道、以善良之心守之、恆忍而結實、○
文理委辦譯本 - 遺沃壤者、猶人以善良之心聽道、守以恆忍、而結實矣、○
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 遺沃壤者、指人聽道、以善良之心守之、且恆忍以結實、○
吳經熊文理聖詠與新經全集 - 其落沃土者、言人既以光明正大之心聞道、且能守之以誠、持之以恆、堅忍不拔、終乃結實。
Nueva Versión Internacional - Pero la parte que cayó en buen terreno son los que oyen la palabra con corazón noble y bueno, y la retienen; y, como perseveran, producen una buena cosecha.
현대인의 성경 - 그러나 좋은 땅에 뿌려진 씨는 바르고 착한 마음으로 말씀을 듣고 그 말씀을 잘 간직하여 인내로 열매를 맺는 사람을 가리킨다.
Новый Русский Перевод - Семена же, упавшие на хорошую почву, – это люди, которые, слыша слово, хранят его в добром и честном сердце и приносят плод благодаря своей стойкости. ( Мк. 4:21-25 )
Восточный перевод - Семена же, упавшие на хорошую почву, – это люди, которые, слыша слово, хранят его в добром и честном сердце и приносят плод благодаря своей стойкости.
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Семена же, упавшие на хорошую почву, – это люди, которые, слыша слово, хранят его в добром и честном сердце и приносят плод благодаря своей стойкости.
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Семена же, упавшие на хорошую почву, – это люди, которые, слыша слово, хранят его в добром и честном сердце и приносят плод благодаря своей стойкости.
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Enfin, « la semence tombée dans la bonne terre », ce sont ceux qui, ayant écouté la Parole, la retiennent dans un cœur honnête et bien disposé. Ils persévèrent et ainsi portent du fruit.
リビングバイブル - 良い土壌とは、素直で正直な心の人を表します。こういう人は、神のことばを聞くと、それをしっかり守り、実を結びます。」
Nestle Aland 28 - τὸ δὲ ἐν τῇ καλῇ γῇ, οὗτοί εἰσιν οἵτινες ἐν καρδίᾳ καλῇ καὶ ἀγαθῇ ἀκούσαντες τὸν λόγον κατέχουσιν καὶ καρποφοροῦσιν ἐν ὑπομονῇ.
unfoldingWord® Greek New Testament - τὸ δὲ ἐν τῇ καλῇ γῇ, οὗτοί εἰσιν οἵτινες ἐν καρδίᾳ καλῇ καὶ ἀγαθῇ, ἀκούσαντες τὸν λόγον κατέχουσιν, καὶ καρποφοροῦσιν ἐν ὑπομονῇ.
Nova Versão Internacional - Mas as que caíram em boa terra são os que, com coração bom e generoso, ouvem a palavra, a retêm e dão fruto, com perseverança. ( Mc 4.21-25 )
Hoffnung für alle - Aber dann gibt es auch Menschen, die sind wie der fruchtbare Boden, auf den die Saat fällt: Sie hören Gottes Botschaft und nehmen sie mit aufrichtigem und bereitwilligem Herzen an. Sie halten treu daran fest, lassen sich durch nichts beirren und bringen schließlich reiche Frucht.« ( Markus 4,21‒25 )
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Hạt giống gieo vào đất tốt là những người thành tâm vâng phục, nghe Đạo liền tin nhận và kiên tâm phổ biến cho nhiều người cùng tin.”
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John 14:21 - “The person who knows my commandments and keeps them, that’s who loves me. And the person who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and make myself plain to him.”
John 14:22 - Judas (not Iscariot) said, “Master, why is it that you are about to make yourself plain to us but not to the world?”
John 14:23 - “Because a loveless world,” said Jesus, “is a sightless world. If anyone loves me, he will carefully keep my word and my Father will love him—we’ll move right into the neighborhood! Not loving me means not keeping my words. The message you are hearing isn’t mine. It’s the message of the Father who sent me.
Jeremiah 31:33 - “This is the brand-new covenant that I will make with Israel when the time comes. I will put my law within them—write it on their hearts!—and be their God. And they will be my people. They will no longer go around setting up schools to teach each other about God. They’ll know me firsthand, the dull and the bright, the smart and the slow. I’ll wipe the slate clean for each of them. I’ll forget they ever sinned!” God’s Decree.
Psalms 119:129 - Every word you give me is a miracle word— how could I help but obey? Break open your words, let the light shine out, let ordinary people see the meaning. Mouth open and panting, I wanted your commands more than anything. Turn my way, look kindly on me, as you always do to those who personally love you. Steady my steps with your Word of promise so nothing malign gets the better of me. Rescue me from the grip of bad men and women so I can live life your way. Smile on me, your servant; teach me the right way to live. I cry rivers of tears because nobody’s living by your book! * * *
Hebrews 2:1 - It’s crucial that we keep a firm grip on what we’ve heard so that we don’t drift off. If the old message delivered by the angels was valid and nobody got away with anything, do you think we can risk neglecting this latest message, this magnificent salvation? First of all, it was delivered in person by the Master, then accurately passed on to us by those who heard it from him. All the while God was validating it with gifts through the Holy Spirit, all sorts of signs and miracles, as he saw fit.
Philippians 3:15 - So let’s keep focused on that goal, those of us who want everything God has for us. If any of you have something else in mind, something less than total commitment, God will clear your blurred vision—you’ll see it yet! Now that we’re on the right track, let’s stay on it.
Proverbs 3:1 - Good friend, don’t forget all I’ve taught you; take to heart my commands. They’ll help you live a long, long time, a long life lived full and well.
Psalms 1:1 - How well God must like you— you don’t walk in the ruts of those blind-as-bats, you don’t stand with the good-for-nothings, you don’t take your seat among the know-it-alls.
Psalms 1:2 - Instead you thrill to God’s Word, you chew on Scripture day and night. You’re a tree replanted in Eden, bearing fresh fruit every month, Never dropping a leaf, always in blossom.
James 1:16 - So, my very dear friends, don’t get thrown off course. Every desirable and beneficial gift comes out of heaven. The gifts are rivers of light cascading down from the Father of Light. There is nothing deceitful in God, nothing two-faced, nothing fickle. He brought us to life using the true Word, showing us off as the crown of all his creatures.
James 1:19 - Post this at all the intersections, dear friends: Lead with your ears, follow up with your tongue, and let anger straggle along in the rear. God’s righteousness doesn’t grow from human anger. So throw all spoiled virtue and cancerous evil in the garbage. In simple humility, let our gardener, God, landscape you with the Word, making a salvation-garden of your life.
James 5:7 - Meanwhile, friends, wait patiently for the Master’s Arrival. You see farmers do this all the time, waiting for their valuable crops to mature, patiently letting the rain do its slow but sure work. Be patient like that. Stay steady and strong. The Master could arrive at any time.
1 Peter 2:1 - So clean house! Make a clean sweep of malice and pretense, envy and hurtful talk. You’ve had a taste of God. Now, like infants at the breast, drink deep of God’s pure kindness. Then you’ll grow up mature and whole in God.
James 1:22 - Don’t fool yourself into thinking that you are a listener when you are anything but, letting the Word go in one ear and out the other. Act on what you hear! Those who hear and don’t act are like those who glance in the mirror, walk away, and two minutes later have no idea who they are, what they look like.
James 1:25 - But whoever catches a glimpse of the revealed counsel of God—the free life!—even out of the corner of his eye, and sticks with it, is no distracted scatterbrain but a man or woman of action. That person will find delight and affirmation in the action.
Romans 7:4 - So, my friends, this is something like what has taken place with you. When Christ died he took that entire rule-dominated way of life down with him and left it in the tomb, leaving you free to “marry” a resurrection life and bear “offspring” of faith for God. For as long as we lived that old way of life, doing whatever we felt we could get away with, sin was calling most of the shots as the old law code hemmed us in. And this made us all the more rebellious. In the end, all we had to show for it was miscarriages and stillbirths. But now that we’re no longer shackled to that domineering mate of sin, and out from under all those oppressive regulations and fine print, we’re free to live a new life in the freedom of God.
Romans 6:22 - But now that you’ve found you don’t have to listen to sin tell you what to do, and have discovered the delight of listening to God telling you, what a surprise! A whole, healed, put-together life right now, with more and more of life on the way! Work hard for sin your whole life and your pension is death. But God’s gift is real life, eternal life, delivered by Jesus, our Master.
Matthew 24:13 - “Staying with it—that’s what God requires. Stay with it to the end. You won’t be sorry, and you’ll be saved. All during this time, the good news—the Message of the kingdom—will be preached all over the world, a witness staked out in every country. And then the end will come.
John 14:15 - “If you love me, show it by doing what I’ve told you. I will talk to the Father, and he’ll provide you another Friend so that you will always have someone with you. This Friend is the Spirit of Truth. The godless world can’t take him in because it doesn’t have eyes to see him, doesn’t know what to look for. But you know him already because he has been staying with you, and will even be in you!
Luke 11:28 - Jesus commented, “Even more blessed are those who hear God’s Word and guard it with their lives!”
Deuteronomy 30:6 - God, your God, will cut away the thick calluses on your heart and your children’s hearts, freeing you to love God, your God, with your whole heart and soul and live, really live. God, your God, will put all these curses on your enemies who hated you and were out to get you.
Galatians 5:22 - But what happens when we live God’s way? He brings gifts into our lives, much the same way that fruit appears in an orchard—things like affection for others, exuberance about life, serenity. We develop a willingness to stick with things, a sense of compassion in the heart, and a conviction that a basic holiness permeates things and people. We find ourselves involved in loyal commitments, not needing to force our way in life, able to marshal and direct our energies wisely.
Galatians 5:23 - Legalism is helpless in bringing this about; it only gets in the way. Among those who belong to Christ, everything connected with getting our own way and mindlessly responding to what everyone else calls necessities is killed off for good—crucified.
Galatians 5:25 - Since this is the kind of life we have chosen, the life of the Spirit, let us make sure that we do not just hold it as an idea in our heads or a sentiment in our hearts, but work out its implications in every detail of our lives. That means we will not compare ourselves with each other as if one of us were better and another worse. We have far more interesting things to do with our lives. Each of us is an original.

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交叉引用

The Message - “But the seed in the good earth—these are the good-hearts who seize the Word and hold on no matter what, sticking with it until there’s a harvest.
新标点和合本 - 那落在好土里的，就是人听了道，持守在诚实善良的心里，并且忍耐着结实。”
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 那落在好土里的，就是人听了道，并用纯真善良的心持守它，耐心等候结果实。”
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 那落在好土里的，就是人听了道，并用纯真善良的心持守它，耐心等候结果实。”
当代译本 - 种子落在沃土里则是指人听了道，用诚实良善的心坚忍持守，最终结出果实。
圣经新译本 - 但那落在好土里的，就是人用诚实良善的心来听，把道持守住，忍耐着结出果实。
中文标准译本 - 那‘好土壤’，是这样的人：他们听了这话语，以诚实美善的心持守它，并且在忍耐中结出果实。
现代标点和合本 - 那落在好土里的，就是人听了道，持守在诚实善良的心里，并且忍耐着结实。
和合本（拼音版） - 那落在好土里的，就是人听了道，持守在诚实、善良的心里，并且忍耐着结实。”
New International Version - But the seed on good soil stands for those with a noble and good heart, who hear the word, retain it, and by persevering produce a crop.
New International Reader's Version - But the seed on good soil stands for those with an honest and good heart. Those people hear the message. They keep it in their hearts. They remain faithful and produce a good crop.
English Standard Version - As for that in the good soil, they are those who, hearing the word, hold it fast in an honest and good heart, and bear fruit with patience.
New Living Translation - And the seeds that fell on the good soil represent honest, good-hearted people who hear God’s word, cling to it, and patiently produce a huge harvest.
Christian Standard Bible - But the seed in the good ground — these are the ones who, having heard the word with an honest and good heart, hold on to it and by enduring, produce fruit.
New American Standard Bible - But the seed in the good soil, these are the ones who have heard the word with a good and virtuous heart, and hold it firmly, and produce fruit with perseverance.
New King James Version - But the ones that fell on the good ground are those who, having heard the word with a noble and good heart, keep it and bear fruit with patience.
Amplified Bible - But as for that seed in the good soil, these are the ones who have heard the word with a good and noble heart, and hold on to it tightly, and bear fruit with patience.
American Standard Version - And that in the good ground, these are such as in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it fast, and bring forth fruit with patience.
King James Version - But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.
New English Translation - But as for the seed that landed on good soil, these are the ones who, after hearing the word, cling to it with an honest and good heart, and bear fruit with steadfast endurance.
World English Bible - Those in the good ground, these are those who with an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and produce fruit with perseverance.
新標點和合本 - 那落在好土裏的，就是人聽了道，持守在誠實善良的心裏，並且忍耐着結實。」
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 那落在好土裏的，就是人聽了道，並用純真善良的心持守它，耐心等候結果實。」
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 那落在好土裏的，就是人聽了道，並用純真善良的心持守它，耐心等候結果實。」
當代譯本 - 種子落在沃土裡則是指人聽了道，用誠實良善的心堅忍持守，最終結出果實。
聖經新譯本 - 但那落在好土裡的，就是人用誠實良善的心來聽，把道持守住，忍耐著結出果實。
呂振中譯本 - 但那在好土裏的、是那以誠實而善良之心聽了道的；他們持守着，又在堅忍中結實。
中文標準譯本 - 那『好土壤』，是這樣的人：他們聽了這話語，以誠實美善的心持守它，並且在忍耐中結出果實。
現代標點和合本 - 那落在好土裡的，就是人聽了道，持守在誠實善良的心裡，並且忍耐著結實。
文理和合譯本 - 沃壤者、猶人聽道、以善良之心守之、恆忍而結實、○
文理委辦譯本 - 遺沃壤者、猶人以善良之心聽道、守以恆忍、而結實矣、○
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 遺沃壤者、指人聽道、以善良之心守之、且恆忍以結實、○
吳經熊文理聖詠與新經全集 - 其落沃土者、言人既以光明正大之心聞道、且能守之以誠、持之以恆、堅忍不拔、終乃結實。
Nueva Versión Internacional - Pero la parte que cayó en buen terreno son los que oyen la palabra con corazón noble y bueno, y la retienen; y, como perseveran, producen una buena cosecha.
현대인의 성경 - 그러나 좋은 땅에 뿌려진 씨는 바르고 착한 마음으로 말씀을 듣고 그 말씀을 잘 간직하여 인내로 열매를 맺는 사람을 가리킨다.
Новый Русский Перевод - Семена же, упавшие на хорошую почву, – это люди, которые, слыша слово, хранят его в добром и честном сердце и приносят плод благодаря своей стойкости. ( Мк. 4:21-25 )
Восточный перевод - Семена же, упавшие на хорошую почву, – это люди, которые, слыша слово, хранят его в добром и честном сердце и приносят плод благодаря своей стойкости.
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Семена же, упавшие на хорошую почву, – это люди, которые, слыша слово, хранят его в добром и честном сердце и приносят плод благодаря своей стойкости.
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Семена же, упавшие на хорошую почву, – это люди, которые, слыша слово, хранят его в добром и честном сердце и приносят плод благодаря своей стойкости.
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Enfin, « la semence tombée dans la bonne terre », ce sont ceux qui, ayant écouté la Parole, la retiennent dans un cœur honnête et bien disposé. Ils persévèrent et ainsi portent du fruit.
リビングバイブル - 良い土壌とは、素直で正直な心の人を表します。こういう人は、神のことばを聞くと、それをしっかり守り、実を結びます。」
Nestle Aland 28 - τὸ δὲ ἐν τῇ καλῇ γῇ, οὗτοί εἰσιν οἵτινες ἐν καρδίᾳ καλῇ καὶ ἀγαθῇ ἀκούσαντες τὸν λόγον κατέχουσιν καὶ καρποφοροῦσιν ἐν ὑπομονῇ.
unfoldingWord® Greek New Testament - τὸ δὲ ἐν τῇ καλῇ γῇ, οὗτοί εἰσιν οἵτινες ἐν καρδίᾳ καλῇ καὶ ἀγαθῇ, ἀκούσαντες τὸν λόγον κατέχουσιν, καὶ καρποφοροῦσιν ἐν ὑπομονῇ.
Nova Versão Internacional - Mas as que caíram em boa terra são os que, com coração bom e generoso, ouvem a palavra, a retêm e dão fruto, com perseverança. ( Mc 4.21-25 )
Hoffnung für alle - Aber dann gibt es auch Menschen, die sind wie der fruchtbare Boden, auf den die Saat fällt: Sie hören Gottes Botschaft und nehmen sie mit aufrichtigem und bereitwilligem Herzen an. Sie halten treu daran fest, lassen sich durch nichts beirren und bringen schließlich reiche Frucht.« ( Markus 4,21‒25 )
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Hạt giống gieo vào đất tốt là những người thành tâm vâng phục, nghe Đạo liền tin nhận và kiên tâm phổ biến cho nhiều người cùng tin.”
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - แต่เมล็ดที่ตกบนดินดีนั้นคือผู้ที่จิตใจดีงามสูงส่ง ผู้ได้ยินพระวจนะแล้วรับไว้และเกิดผลด้วยความอดทนบากบั่น
พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - แต่เมล็ดบนดินดีเปรียบเสมือนผู้ที่บากบั่น ด้วยจิตใจอันซื่อสัตย์และดีงามเมื่อได้ยินคำกล่าว และด้วยความพากเพียรจึงบังเกิดผล

John 14:21 - “The person who knows my commandments and keeps them, that’s who loves me. And the person who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and make myself plain to him.”
John 14:22 - Judas (not Iscariot) said, “Master, why is it that you are about to make yourself plain to us but not to the world?”
John 14:23 - “Because a loveless world,” said Jesus, “is a sightless world. If anyone loves me, he will carefully keep my word and my Father will love him—we’ll move right into the neighborhood! Not loving me means not keeping my words. The message you are hearing isn’t mine. It’s the message of the Father who sent me.
Jeremiah 31:33 - “This is the brand-new covenant that I will make with Israel when the time comes. I will put my law within them—write it on their hearts!—and be their God. And they will be my people. They will no longer go around setting up schools to teach each other about God. They’ll know me firsthand, the dull and the bright, the smart and the slow. I’ll wipe the slate clean for each of them. I’ll forget they ever sinned!” God’s Decree.
Psalms 119:129 - Every word you give me is a miracle word— how could I help but obey? Break open your words, let the light shine out, let ordinary people see the meaning. Mouth open and panting, I wanted your commands more than anything. Turn my way, look kindly on me, as you always do to those who personally love you. Steady my steps with your Word of promise so nothing malign gets the better of me. Rescue me from the grip of bad men and women so I can live life your way. Smile on me, your servant; teach me the right way to live. I cry rivers of tears because nobody’s living by your book! * * *
Hebrews 2:1 - It’s crucial that we keep a firm grip on what we’ve heard so that we don’t drift off. If the old message delivered by the angels was valid and nobody got away with anything, do you think we can risk neglecting this latest message, this magnificent salvation? First of all, it was delivered in person by the Master, then accurately passed on to us by those who heard it from him. All the while God was validating it with gifts through the Holy Spirit, all sorts of signs and miracles, as he saw fit.
Philippians 3:15 - So let’s keep focused on that goal, those of us who want everything God has for us. If any of you have something else in mind, something less than total commitment, God will clear your blurred vision—you’ll see it yet! Now that we’re on the right track, let’s stay on it.
Proverbs 3:1 - Good friend, don’t forget all I’ve taught you; take to heart my commands. They’ll help you live a long, long time, a long life lived full and well.
Psalms 1:1 - How well God must like you— you don’t walk in the ruts of those blind-as-bats, you don’t stand with the good-for-nothings, you don’t take your seat among the know-it-alls.
Psalms 1:2 - Instead you thrill to God’s Word, you chew on Scripture day and night. You’re a tree replanted in Eden, bearing fresh fruit every month, Never dropping a leaf, always in blossom.
James 1:16 - So, my very dear friends, don’t get thrown off course. Every desirable and beneficial gift comes out of heaven. The gifts are rivers of light cascading down from the Father of Light. There is nothing deceitful in God, nothing two-faced, nothing fickle. He brought us to life using the true Word, showing us off as the crown of all his creatures.
James 1:19 - Post this at all the intersections, dear friends: Lead with your ears, follow up with your tongue, and let anger straggle along in the rear. God’s righteousness doesn’t grow from human anger. So throw all spoiled virtue and cancerous evil in the garbage. In simple humility, let our gardener, God, landscape you with the Word, making a salvation-garden of your life.
James 5:7 - Meanwhile, friends, wait patiently for the Master’s Arrival. You see farmers do this all the time, waiting for their valuable crops to mature, patiently letting the rain do its slow but sure work. Be patient like that. Stay steady and strong. The Master could arrive at any time.
1 Peter 2:1 - So clean house! Make a clean sweep of malice and pretense, envy and hurtful talk. You’ve had a taste of God. Now, like infants at the breast, drink deep of God’s pure kindness. Then you’ll grow up mature and whole in God.
James 1:22 - Don’t fool yourself into thinking that you are a listener when you are anything but, letting the Word go in one ear and out the other. Act on what you hear! Those who hear and don’t act are like those who glance in the mirror, walk away, and two minutes later have no idea who they are, what they look like.
James 1:25 - But whoever catches a glimpse of the revealed counsel of God—the free life!—even out of the corner of his eye, and sticks with it, is no distracted scatterbrain but a man or woman of action. That person will find delight and affirmation in the action.
Romans 7:4 - So, my friends, this is something like what has taken place with you. When Christ died he took that entire rule-dominated way of life down with him and left it in the tomb, leaving you free to “marry” a resurrection life and bear “offspring” of faith for God. For as long as we lived that old way of life, doing whatever we felt we could get away with, sin was calling most of the shots as the old law code hemmed us in. And this made us all the more rebellious. In the end, all we had to show for it was miscarriages and stillbirths. But now that we’re no longer shackled to that domineering mate of sin, and out from under all those oppressive regulations and fine print, we’re free to live a new life in the freedom of God.
Romans 6:22 - But now that you’ve found you don’t have to listen to sin tell you what to do, and have discovered the delight of listening to God telling you, what a surprise! A whole, healed, put-together life right now, with more and more of life on the way! Work hard for sin your whole life and your pension is death. But God’s gift is real life, eternal life, delivered by Jesus, our Master.
Matthew 24:13 - “Staying with it—that’s what God requires. Stay with it to the end. You won’t be sorry, and you’ll be saved. All during this time, the good news—the Message of the kingdom—will be preached all over the world, a witness staked out in every country. And then the end will come.
John 14:15 - “If you love me, show it by doing what I’ve told you. I will talk to the Father, and he’ll provide you another Friend so that you will always have someone with you. This Friend is the Spirit of Truth. The godless world can’t take him in because it doesn’t have eyes to see him, doesn’t know what to look for. But you know him already because he has been staying with you, and will even be in you!
Luke 11:28 - Jesus commented, “Even more blessed are those who hear God’s Word and guard it with their lives!”
Deuteronomy 30:6 - God, your God, will cut away the thick calluses on your heart and your children’s hearts, freeing you to love God, your God, with your whole heart and soul and live, really live. God, your God, will put all these curses on your enemies who hated you and were out to get you.
Galatians 5:22 - But what happens when we live God’s way? He brings gifts into our lives, much the same way that fruit appears in an orchard—things like affection for others, exuberance about life, serenity. We develop a willingness to stick with things, a sense of compassion in the heart, and a conviction that a basic holiness permeates things and people. We find ourselves involved in loyal commitments, not needing to force our way in life, able to marshal and direct our energies wisely.
Galatians 5:23 - Legalism is helpless in bringing this about; it only gets in the way. Among those who belong to Christ, everything connected with getting our own way and mindlessly responding to what everyone else calls necessities is killed off for good—crucified.
Galatians 5:25 - Since this is the kind of life we have chosen, the life of the Spirit, let us make sure that we do not just hold it as an idea in our heads or a sentiment in our hearts, but work out its implications in every detail of our lives. That means we will not compare ourselves with each other as if one of us were better and another worse. We have far more interesting things to do with our lives. Each of us is an original.