Luke 8:15

The good soil is those with honest, good hearts who hold the word firmly and bear fruit with patience. Genuine faith perseveres and produces lasting fruit.

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• Heb 10:36For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.
• Gal 5:22–26But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
• Col 1:10That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
• Luke 6:45A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.
• 1 Jn 2:3And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
• Col 1:6Which is come unto you, as it is in all the world; and bringeth forth fruit, as it doth also in you, since the day ye heard of it, and knew the grace of God in truth:
• John 14:15If ye love me, keep my commandments.
• Jas 1:22–25But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
• Matt 24:13But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
• Luke 11:28But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.
• Rom 6:22But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.
• Rom 7:4Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
• Phil 1:11Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.
• John 15:10If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love.
• Deut 30:6And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.
• Jas 1:16–19Do not err, my beloved brethren.
• 1 Pet 2:1–2Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
• Rom 2:7To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:
• Jas 5:7–8Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.
• Ezek 36:26–27A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
• Eph 2:8For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
• Heb 2:1Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.
• Heb 6:11–12And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end:
• 1 Cor 7:19Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.
• Jas 1:4But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
• Rom 7:18For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
• Jer 15:16Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts.
• Job 23:11–12My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.
• Ps 51:10Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
• Ps 119:127–129Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold.
• Jer 31:33But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
• Ps 119:11Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.
• John 14:21–24He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.
• Ps 1:1–3Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
• Jer 32:29And the Chaldeans, that fight against this city, shall come and set fire on this city, and burn it with the houses, upon whose roofs they have offered incense unto Baal, and poured out drink offerings unto other gods, to provoke me to anger.
• Phil 3:13–15Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
• Prov 3:1My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:

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