Matthew 13:23

The good-soil hearer understands the word and bears abundant fruit, thirty, sixty, or a hundredfold.

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• Phil 1:11filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
• Matt 12:33Make a tree good and its fruit will be good, or make a tree bad and its fruit will be bad; for a tree is known by its fruit.
• John 15:16You did not choose Me, but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will remain—so that whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you.
• Gal 5:22–23But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
• John 15:1–8“I am the true vine, and My Father is the keeper of the vineyard.
• Ps 92:13–15Planted in the house of the LORD, they will flourish in the courts of our God.
• Matt 13:8Still other seed fell on good soil and produced a crop—a hundredfold, sixtyfold, or thirtyfold.
• Col 1:6that has come to you. All over the world this gospel is bearing fruit and growing, just as it has been doing among you since the day you heard it and truly understood the grace of God.
• Luke 13:9If it bears fruit next year, fine. But if not, you can cut it down.’”
• Col 1:10so that you may walk in a manner worthy of the Lord and may please Him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God,
• Matt 3:8Produce fruit, then, in keeping with repentance.
• 2 Pet 3:18But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.
• 2 Cor 8:1–2Now, brothers, we want you to know about the grace that God has given the churches of Macedonia.
• Phil 4:17Not that I am seeking a gift, but I am looking for the fruit that may be credited to your account.
• 2 Pet 1:5–8For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith virtue; and to virtue, knowledge;
• 1 Jn 5:20And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true—in His Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.
• 2 Th 2:13–14But we should always thank God for you, brothers who are loved by the Lord, because God has chosen you from the beginning to be saved by the sanctification of the Spirit and by faith in the truth.
• 1 Th 4:1Finally, brothers, we ask and encourage you in the Lord Jesus to live in a way that is pleasing to God, just as you have received from us. This is how you already live, so you should do so all the more.
• Heb 4:2For we also received the good news just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to them, since they did not share the faith of those who comprehended it.
• Heb 8:10For this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord. I will put My laws in their minds and inscribe them on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.
• Mark 4:20Still others are like the seeds sown on good soil. They hear the word, receive it, and produce a crop—thirtyfold, sixtyfold, or a hundredfold.”
• 2 Th 2:10and with every wicked deception directed against those who are perishing, because they refused the love of the truth that would have saved them.
• Luke 6:43–44No good tree bears bad fruit, nor does a bad tree bear good fruit.
• 2 Cor 9:10Now He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your store of seed and will increase the harvest of your righteousness.
• Prov 1:5–6let the wise listen and gain instruction, and the discerning acquire wise counsel
• Mark 10:15Truly I tell you, anyone who does not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.”
• Ps 1:1–3Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, or set foot on the path of sinners, or sit in the seat of mockers.
• Luke 8:15But the seeds on good soil are those with a noble and good heart, who hear the word, cling to it, and by persevering produce a crop.
• John 1:11–13He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him.
• Matt 3:10The axe lies ready at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.
• Acts 16:14Among those listening was a woman named Lydia, a dealer in purple cloth from the city of Thyatira, who was a worshiper of God. The Lord opened her heart to respond to Paul’s message.
• Ezek 18:31Cast away from yourselves all the transgressions you have committed, and fashion for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. Why should you die, O house of Israel?
• John 17:7–8Now they know that everything You have given Me comes from You.
• Acts 17:11Now the Bereans were more noble-minded than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if these teachings were true.
• Prov 2:2–6if you incline your ear to wisdom and direct your heart to understanding,
• John 8:47Whoever belongs to God hears the words of God. The reason you do not hear is that you do not belong to God.”
• Ezek 36:26I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.
• John 10:26–27But because you are not My sheep, you refuse to believe.
• Jas 1:21–22Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and every expression of evil, and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save your souls.
• 1 Pet 2:1–2Rid yourselves, therefore, of all malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander.

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