John 15:8
15:8 My Father is honored
by this, that
you bear
much fruit and show that you are
my disciples.
John 15:16
15:16 You did not choose me, but I chose you
and appointed you to go and bear
fruit, fruit that remains,
so that whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you.
Galatians 5:22-23
5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
5:23 gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
Philippians 1:11
1:11 filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ to the glory and praise of God.
Colossians 1:5-10
1:5 Your faith and love have arisen
from the hope laid up
for you in heaven, which you have heard about in the message of truth, the gospel
1:6 that has come to you. Just as in the entire world this gospel
is bearing fruit and growing, so it has also been bearing fruit and growing
among you from the first day you heard it and understood the grace of God in truth.
1:7 You learned the gospel
from Epaphras, our dear fellow slave
– a
faithful minister of Christ on our
behalf –
1:8 who also told us of your love in the Spirit.
Paul’s Prayer for the Growth of the Church
1:9 For this reason we also, from the day we heard about you, have not ceased praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,
1:10 so that you may live worthily of the Lord and please him in all respects – bearing fruit in every good deed, growing in the knowledge of God,