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 you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.
• Gal 5:22–26But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,
• Col 1:10that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
• Luke 6:45The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings out that which is good, and the evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings out that which is evil, for out of the abundance of the heart, his mouth speaks.
• 1 Jn 2:3This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments.
• Col 1:6which has come to you; even as it is in all the world and is bearing fruit and growing, as it does in you also, since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth;
• John 14:15If you love me, keep my commandments.
• Jas 1:22–25But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.
• Matt 24:13But he who endures to the end, the same will be saved.
• Luke 11:28But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.”
• Rom 6:22But now, being made free from sin, and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification, and the result of eternal life.
• Rom 7:4Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might produce fruit to God.
• Phil 1:11being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
• John 15:10If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and remain in his love.
• Deut 30:6Yahweh your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your offspring, to love Yahweh your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, that you may live.
• Jas 1:16–19Don’t be deceived, my beloved brothers.
• 1 Pet 2:1–2Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,
• Rom 2:7to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;
• Jas 5:7–8Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.
• Ezek 36:26–27I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.
• Eph 2:8for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,
• Heb 2:1Therefore we ought to pay greater attention to the things that were heard, lest perhaps we drift away.
• Heb 6:11–12We desire that each one of you may show the same diligence to the fullness of hope even to the end,
• 1 Cor 7:19Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.
• Jas 1:4Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
• Rom 7:18For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don’t find it doing that which is good.
• Jer 15:16Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart, for I am called by your name, Yahweh, God of Armies.
• Job 23:11–12My foot has held fast to his steps. I have kept his way, and not turned aside.
• Ps 51:10Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.
• Ps 119:127–129Therefore I love your commandments more than gold, yes, more than pure gold.
• Jer 31:33“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says Yahweh: I will put my law in their inward parts, and in their heart will I write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people:
• Ps 119:11I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.
• John 14:21–24One who has my commandments, and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him.”
• Ps 1:1–3Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;
• Jer 32:29and the Chaldeans, who fight against this city, shall come and set this city on fire, and burn it, with the houses, on whose roofs they have offered incense to Baal, and poured out drink offerings to other gods, to provoke me to anger.
• Phil 3:13–15Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do. Forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before,
• Prov 3:1My son, don’t forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments:

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