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Afflictions Made Beneficial in Rendering Us Fruitful in Good Works John 15:2

He cuts off every branch in Me that bears no fruit, and every branch that does bear fruit, He prunes to make it even more fruitful.

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Afflictions Made Beneficial in Rendering Us Fruitful in Good Works Hebrews 12:10, 11

Our fathers disciplined us for a short time as they thought best, but God disciplines us for our good, so that we may share in His holiness. / No discipline seems enjoyable at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it yields a harvest of righteousness and peace to those who have been trained by it.

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Agriculture or Farming: Grief Occasioned by the Failure of the Fruits of Joel 1:11

Be dismayed, O farmers, wail, O vinedressers, over the wheat and barley, because the harvest of the field has perished.

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Agriculture or Farming: Grief Occasioned by the Failure of the Fruits of Amos 5:16, 17

Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Hosts, the Lord, says: “There will be wailing in all the public squares and cries of ‘Alas! Alas!’ in all the streets. The farmer will be summoned to mourn, and the mourners to wail. / There will be wailing in all the vineyards, for I will pass through your midst,” says the LORD.

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Agriculture: Fruits Blasted Because of Sin Isaiah 5:10

For ten acres of vineyard will yield but a bath of wine, and a homer of seed only an ephah of grain.”

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Agriculture: Fruits Blasted Because of Sin Isaiah 7:23

And on that day, in every place that had a thousand vines worth a thousand shekels of silver, only briers and thorns will be found.

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Agriculture: Fruits Blasted Because of Sin Jeremiah 12:13

They have sown wheat but harvested thorns. They have exhausted themselves to no avail. Bear the shame of your harvest because of the fierce anger of the LORD.”

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Agriculture: Fruits Blasted Because of Sin Joel 1:10, 11

The field is ruined; the land mourns. For the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, and the oil fails. / Be dismayed, O farmers, wail, O vinedressers, over the wheat and barley, because the harvest of the field has perished.

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Alliance and Society with the Enemies of God: Provoke God to Leave Mean to Reap the Fruits of Them Joshua 23:12, 13

For if you turn away and cling to the rest of these nations that remain among you, and if you intermarry and associate with them, / know for sure that the LORD your God will no longer drive out these nations before you. Instead, they will become for you a snare and a trap, a scourge in your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land that the LORD your God has given you.

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Alliance and Society with the Enemies of God: Provoke God to Leave Mean to Reap the Fruits of Them Judges 2:1–3

Now the angel of the LORD went up from Gilgal to Bochim and said, “I brought you up out of Egypt and led you into the land that I had promised to your fathers, and I said, ‘I will never break My covenant with you, / and you are not to make a covenant with the people of this land, but you shall tear down their altars.’ Yet you have not obeyed My voice. What is this you have done? / So now I tell you that I will not drive out these people before you; they will be thorns in your sides, and their gods will be a snare to you.”

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Almond: Fruit of Genesis 43:11

Then their father Israel said to them, “If it must be so, then do this: Put some of the best products of the land in your packs and carry them down as a gift for the man—a little balm and a little honey, spices and myrrh, pistachios and almonds.

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Apple: A Fruit Proverbs 25:11

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.

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Apple: A Fruit Joel 1:12

The grapevine is dried up, and the fig tree is withered; the pomegranate, palm, and apple—all the trees of the orchard—are withered. Surely the joy of mankind has dried up.

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Branch: Fruitless, Cut off John 15:2, 6

He cuts off every branch in Me that bears no fruit, and every branch that does bear fruit, He prunes to make it even more fruitful. / If anyone does not remain in Me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers. Such branches are gathered up, thrown into the fire, and burned.

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Bread: First Fruit of, offered to God Numbers 15:19, 20

and you eat the food of the land, you shall lift up an offering to the LORD. / From the first of your dough, you are to lift up a cake as a contribution; offer it just like an offering from the threshing floor.

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Canaan: Land of Fruitfulness of Numbers 13:27

And they gave this account to Moses: “We went into the land to which you sent us, and indeed, it is flowing with milk and honey. Here is some of its fruit!

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Canaan: Land of Fruitfulness of Numbers 14:7, 8

and said to the whole congregation of Israel, “The land we passed through and explored is an exceedingly good land. / If the LORD delights in us, He will bring us into this land, a land flowing with milk and honey, and He will give it to us.

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Canaan: Land of Fruitfulness of Jeremiah 2:7

I brought you into a fertile land to eat its fruit and bounty, but you came and defiled My land, and made My inheritance detestable.

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Canaan: Land of Fruitfulness of Jeremiah 32:22

You gave them this land that You had sworn to give their fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.

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Canaan: Land of Fruits Deuteronomy 8:8

a land of wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of olive oil and honey;

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Canaan: Land of Fruits Jeremiah 40:10, 12

As for me, I will stay in Mizpah to represent you before the Chaldeans who come to us. As for you, gather wine grapes, summer fruit, and oil, place them in your storage jars, and live in the cities you have taken.” / they all returned from all the places to which they had been banished and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah at Mizpah. And they gathered an abundance of wine grapes and summer fruit.

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Compared To Saints: Fruitful Trees Psalm 1:3

He is like a tree planted by streams of water, yielding its fruit in season, whose leaf does not wither, and who prospers in all he does.

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Compared To Saints: Fruitful Trees Jeremiah 17:8

He is like a tree planted by the waters that sends out its roots toward the stream. It does not fear when the heat comes, and its leaves are always green. It does not worry in a year of drought, nor does it cease to produce fruit.

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Covetousness: Eve, in Desiring the Forbidden Fruit Genesis 3:6

When the woman saw that the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eyes, and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom, she took the fruit and ate it. She also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate it.

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Date: A Fruit, (Margin) 2 Chronicles 31:5

As soon as the order went out, the Israelites generously provided the firstfruits of the grain, new wine, oil, and honey, and of all the produce of the field, and they brought in an abundance—a tithe of everything.

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Disobedience to God of Adam and Eve, Eating the Forbidden Fruit Genesis 3:6–11

When the woman saw that the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eyes, and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom, she took the fruit and ate it. She also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate it. / And the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; so they sewed together fig leaves and made coverings for themselves. / Then the man and his wife heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the breeze of the day, and they hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.

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Faith in Christ Is: Fruitful 1 Thessalonians 1:3

and continually recalling before our God and Father your work of faith, your labor of love, and your enduring hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.

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Faith without Fruits, is Dead James 2:17, 20, 26

So too, faith by itself, if it does not result in action, is dead. / O foolish man, do you want evidence that faith without deeds is worthless? / As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.

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Faith: True, Evidenced by Its Fruits James 2:21–25

Was not our father Abraham justified by what he did when he offered his son Isaac on the altar? / You see that his faith was working with his actions, and his faith was perfected by what he did. / And the Scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,” and he was called a friend of God.

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First Fruits: As a Heave offering Numbers 15:20

From the first of your dough, you are to lift up a cake as a contribution; offer it just like an offering from the threshing floor.

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First Fruits: As a Heave offering Nehemiah 10:37

Moreover, we will bring to the priests at the storerooms of the house of our God the firstfruits of our dough, of our grain offerings, of the fruit of all our trees, and of our new wine and oil. A tenth of our produce belongs to the Levites, so that they shall receive tithes in all the towns where we labor.

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First Fruits: As a Heave offering Ezekiel 44:30

The best of all the firstfruits and of every contribution from all your offerings will belong to the priests. You are to give your first batch of dough to the priest, so that a blessing may rest upon your homes.

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First Fruits: Belonged to the Priests Leviticus 23:20

The priest is to wave the lambs as a wave offering before the LORD, together with the bread of the firstfruits. The bread and the two lambs shall be holy to the LORD for the priest.

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First Fruits: Belonged to the Priests Numbers 18:12, 13

I give you all the freshest olive oil and all the finest new wine and grain that the Israelites give to the LORD as their firstfruits. / The firstfruits of everything in their land that they bring to the LORD will belong to you. Every ceremonially clean person in your household may eat them.

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First Fruits: Belonged to the Priests Deuteronomy 18:3–5

This shall be the priests’ share from the people who offer a sacrifice, whether a bull or a sheep: the priests are to be given the shoulder, the jowls, and the stomach. / You are to give them the firstfruits of your grain, new wine, and oil, and the first wool sheared from your flock. / For the LORD your God has chosen Levi and his sons out of all your tribes to stand and minister in His name for all time.

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First Fruits: Figurative Romans 8:23

Not only that, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.

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First Fruits: Figurative Romans 11:16

If the first part of the dough is holy, so is the whole batch; if the root is holy, so are the branches.

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First Fruits: Figurative 1 Corinthians 15:20, 23

But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. / But each in his own turn: Christ the firstfruits; then at His coming, those who belong to Him.

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First Fruits: Figurative James 1:18

He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we would be a kind of firstfruits of His creation.

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First Fruits: First Ripe of Fruits, Grain, Oil, Wine, and First of Fleece, Required As an offering Exodus 22:29

You must not hold back offerings from your granaries or vats. You are to give Me the firstborn of your sons.

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First Fruits: First Ripe of Fruits, Grain, Oil, Wine, and First of Fleece, Required As an offering Leviticus 2:12–16

You may bring them to the LORD as an offering of firstfruits, but they are not to be offered on the altar as a pleasing aroma. / And you shall season each of your grain offerings with salt. You must not leave the salt of the covenant of your God out of your grain offering; you are to add salt to each of your offerings. / If you bring a grain offering of firstfruits to the LORD, you shall offer crushed heads of new grain roasted on the fire.

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First Fruits: First Ripe of Fruits, Grain, Oil, Wine, and First of Fleece, Required As an offering Numbers 18:12

I give you all the freshest olive oil and all the finest new wine and grain that the Israelites give to the LORD as their firstfruits.

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First Fruits: First Ripe of Fruits, Grain, Oil, Wine, and First of Fleece, Required As an offering Deuteronomy 18:4

You are to give them the firstfruits of your grain, new wine, and oil, and the first wool sheared from your flock.

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First Fruits: First Ripe of Fruits, Grain, Oil, Wine, and First of Fleece, Required As an offering 2 Chronicles 31:5

As soon as the order went out, the Israelites generously provided the firstfruits of the grain, new wine, oil, and honey, and of all the produce of the field, and they brought in an abundance—a tithe of everything.

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First Fruits: First Ripe of Fruits, Grain, Oil, Wine, and First of Fleece, Required As an offering Nehemiah 10:35, 37, 39

We will also bring the firstfruits of our land and of every fruit tree to the house of the LORD year by year. / Moreover, we will bring to the priests at the storerooms of the house of our God the firstfruits of our dough, of our grain offerings, of the fruit of all our trees, and of our new wine and oil. A tenth of our produce belongs to the Levites, so that they shall receive tithes in all the towns where we labor. / For the Israelites and the Levites are to bring the contributions of grain, new wine, and oil to the storerooms where the articles of the sanctuary are kept and where the ministering priests, the gatekeepers, and the singers stay. Thus we will not neglect the house of our God.”

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First Fruits: First Ripe of Fruits, Grain, Oil, Wine, and First of Fleece, Required As an offering Proverbs 3:9

Honor the LORD with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your harvest;

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First Fruits: First Ripe of Fruits, Grain, Oil, Wine, and First of Fleece, Required As an offering Jeremiah 2:3

Israel was holy to the LORD, the firstfruits of His harvest. All who devoured her found themselves guilty; disaster came upon them,’” declares the LORD.

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First Fruits: First Ripe of Fruits, Grain, Oil, Wine, and First of Fleece, Required As an offering Romans 11:16

If the first part of the dough is holy, so is the whole batch; if the root is holy, so are the branches.

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First Fruits: Freewill offerings of, Given to the Prophets 2 Kings 4:42

Now a man from Baal-shalishah came to the man of God with a sack of twenty loaves of barley bread from the first ripe grain. “Give it to the people to eat,” said Elisha.

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First Fruits: Offerings of, Must be Free from Blemish Numbers 18:12

I give you all the freshest olive oil and all the finest new wine and grain that the Israelites give to the LORD as their firstfruits.

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First Fruits: Presented at the Tabernacle Exodus 22:29

You must not hold back offerings from your granaries or vats. You are to give Me the firstborn of your sons.

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First Fruits: Presented at the Tabernacle Exodus 23:19

Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.

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First Fruits: Presented at the Tabernacle Exodus 34:26

Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.”

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First Fruits: Presented at the Tabernacle Deuteronomy 26:3–10

to the priest who is serving at that time, and say to him, “I declare today to the LORD your God that I have entered the land that the LORD swore to our fathers to give us.” / Then the priest shall take the basket from your hands and place it before the altar of the LORD your God, / and you are to declare before the LORD your God, “My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt few in number and lived there and became a great nation, mighty and numerous.

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First Fruits: To be offered As a Thank-Offering Upon Entrance Into the Land of Promise Deuteronomy 26:3–10

to the priest who is serving at that time, and say to him, “I declare today to the LORD your God that I have entered the land that the LORD swore to our fathers to give us.” / Then the priest shall take the basket from your hands and place it before the altar of the LORD your God, / and you are to declare before the LORD your God, “My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt few in number and lived there and became a great nation, mighty and numerous.

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First Fruits: Wave offering of Leviticus 23:10–14, 17

“Speak to the Israelites and say, ‘When you enter the land that I am giving you and you reap its harvest, you are to bring to the priest a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest. / And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD so that it may be accepted on your behalf; the priest is to wave it on the day after the Sabbath. / On the day you wave the sheaf, you shall offer a year-old lamb without blemish as a burnt offering to the LORD,

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Firstfruits Romans 8:29

For those God foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers.

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Firstfruits Romans 8:23

Not only that, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.

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Firstfruits Proverbs 3:9, 10

Honor the LORD with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your harvest; / then your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will overflow with new wine.

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Flesh: Fruits of Galatians 5:19–21

The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery; / idolatry and sorcery; hatred, discord, jealousy, and rage; rivalries, divisions, factions, / and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

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Food: Articles of Dried Fruit 1 Samuel 25:18

Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five butchered sheep, five seahs of roasted grain, a hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs. She loaded them on donkeys

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Food: Articles of Dried Fruit 1 Samuel 30:12

a piece of a fig cake and two clusters of raisins. So he ate and was revived, for he had not had any food or water for three days and three nights.

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Food: Articles of Fruit 2 Samuel 16:2

“Why do you have these?” asked the king. Ziba replied, “The donkeys are for the king’s household to ride, the bread and summer fruit are for the young men to eat, and the wine is to refresh those who become exhausted in the wilderness.”

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Forests of the Unfruitful World Isaiah 32:19

But hail will level the forest, and the city will sink to the depths.

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Forests: (A Fruitful Field Turned Into) of the Jews Rejected by God Isaiah 29:17

In a very short time, will not Lebanon become an orchard, and the orchard seem like a forest?

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Forests: (A Fruitful Field Turned Into) of the Jews Rejected by God Isaiah 32:15

until the Spirit is poured out upon us from on high. Then the desert will be an orchard, and the orchard will seem like a forest.

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Fountains and Springs: Afford: Fruitfulness to the Earth 1 Kings 18:5

Then Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go throughout the land to every spring and every valley. Perhaps we will find grass to keep the horses and mules alive so that we will not have to destroy any livestock.”

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Fountains and Springs: Afford: Fruitfulness to the Earth Joel 3:18

And in that day the mountains will drip with sweet wine, and the hills will flow with milk. All the streams of Judah will run with water, and a spring will flow from the house of the LORD to water the Valley of Acacias.

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Fruit Galatians 5:22, 23

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, / gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

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Fruit James 3:17

But the wisdom from above is first of all pure, then peace-loving, gentle, accommodating, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial, and sincere.

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Fruit Matthew 3:8

Produce fruit, then, in keeping with repentance.

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Fruit John 15:16

You 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.

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Fruit Matthew 12:33

Make 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.

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Fruit Isaiah 37:31

And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah will again take root below and bear fruit above.

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Fruit Psalm 1:3

He is like a tree planted by streams of water, yielding its fruit in season, whose leaf does not wither, and who prospers in all he does.

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Fruit Genesis 3:6

When the woman saw that the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eyes, and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom, she took the fruit and ate it. She also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate it.

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Fruit Leviticus 26:4, 5

I will give you rains in their season, and the land will yield its produce, and the trees of the field will bear their fruit. / Your threshing will continue until the grape harvest, and the grape harvest will continue until sowing time; you will have your fill of food to eat and will dwell securely in your land.

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Fruit Matthew 7:16

By their fruit you will recognize them. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?

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Fruit of the Spirit Galatians 5:22, 23

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, / gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

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Fruit of the Spirit 1 John 4:8

Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.

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Fruit of the Spirit Romans 8:6

The mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace,

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Fruit of the Spirit Ephesians 5:9

for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness, and truth.

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Fruit of the Spirit 1 Peter 4:8

Above all, love one another deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.

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Fruit of the Spirit Romans 13:10

Love does no wrong to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

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Fruit of the Spirit Ephesians 4:1–3

As a prisoner in the Lord, then, I urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling you have received: / with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, / and with diligence to preserve the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace.

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Fruit of the Spirit Colossians 3:14

And over all these virtues put on love, which is the bond of perfect unity.

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Fruit of the Spirit 1 Thessalonians 4:4

each of you must know how to control his own body in holiness and honor,

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Fruit of the Spirit 1 Corinthians 13:13

And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love.

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Fruit Trees: Care For Deuteronomy 20:19, 20

When you lay siege to a city for an extended time while fighting against it to capture it, you must not destroy its trees by putting an axe to them, because you can eat their fruit. You must not cut them down. Are the trees of the field human, that you should besiege them? / But you may destroy the trees that you know do not produce fruit. Use them to build siege works against the city that is waging war against you, until it falls.

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Fruitfulness Genesis 1:28

God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth.”

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Fruitfulness Galatians 5:22, 23

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, / gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

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Fruitfulness John 15:16

You 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.

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Fruitfulness Philippians 1:6

being confident of this, that He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.

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Fruitfulness John 15:8

This is to My Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, proving yourselves to be My disciples.

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Fruitfulness Romans 7:4

Therefore, my brothers, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God.

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Fruitfulness Titus 3:5, 6

He saved us, not by the righteous deeds we had done, but according to His mercy, through the washing of new birth and renewal by the Holy Spirit. / This is the Spirit He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior,

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Fruitfulness Matthew 12:33

Make 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.

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Fruitfulness Psalm 1:3

He is like a tree planted by streams of water, yielding its fruit in season, whose leaf does not wither, and who prospers in all he does.

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Fruits of a Holy Conversation Proverbs 12:14

By fruitful speech a man is filled with good things, and the work of his hands returns to him.

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Fruits of a Holy Conversation Proverbs 18:20

From the fruit of his mouth a man’s belly is filled; with the harvest from his lips he is satisfied.

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