Romans 11:22
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22 Therefore consider the goodness and severity of God: on those who fell, severity; but toward you, [a]goodness, (A)if you continue in His goodness. Otherwise (B)you also will be cut off.
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- Romans 11:22 NU adds of God
Hebrews 3:14
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14 For we have become partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end,
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Hebrews 3:6
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6 but Christ as (A)a Son over His own house, (B)whose house we are (C)if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope [a]firm to the end.
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- Hebrews 3:6 NU omits firm to the end
1 Corinthians 15:2
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2 (A)by which also you are saved, if you hold fast that word which I preached to you—unless (B)you believed in vain.
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John 15:2
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2 (A)Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He [a]takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear (B)more fruit.
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- John 15:2 Or lifts up
Hebrews 10:23
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23 Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for (A)He who promised is faithful.
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Galatians 6:9
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9 And (A)let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap (B)if we do not lose heart.
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Hebrews 10:35-39
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35 Therefore do not cast away your confidence, (A)which has great reward. 36 (B)For you have need of endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, (C)you may receive the promise:
37 “For (D)yet a little while,
And (E)He[a] who is coming will come and will not [b]tarry.
38 Now (F)the[c] just shall live by faith;
But if anyone draws back,
My soul has no pleasure in him.”
39 But we are not of those (G)who draw back to [d]perdition, but of those who (H)believe to the saving of the soul.
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- Hebrews 10:37 Or that which
- Hebrews 10:37 delay
- Hebrews 10:38 NU My just one
- Hebrews 10:39 destruction
John 8:31
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The Truth Shall Make You Free
31 Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed Him, “If you (A)abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed.
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Revelation 2:5
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5 Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent and do the first works, (A)or else I will come to you quickly and remove your lampstand from its place—unless you repent.
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Romans 2:4-5
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4 Or do you despise (A)the riches of His goodness, (B)forbearance, and (C)longsuffering, (D)not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance? 5 But in accordance with your hardness and your [a]impenitent heart (E)you are [b]treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God,
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- Romans 2:5 unrepentant
- Romans 2:5 storing
Jude 20-21
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Maintain Your Life with God
20 But you, beloved, (A)building yourselves up on your most holy faith, (B)praying in the Holy Spirit, 21 keep yourselves in the love of God, (C)looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
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1 John 2:19
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19 (A)They went out from us, but they were not of us; for (B)if they had been of us, they would have continued with us; but they went out (C)that they might be made manifest, that none of them were of us.
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1 Thessalonians 3:8
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8 For now we live, if you (A)stand fast in the Lord.
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1 Thessalonians 3:5
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5 For this reason, when I could no longer endure it, I sent to know your faith, (A)lest by some means the tempter had tempted you, and (B)our labor might be in vain.
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Romans 9:22-23
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22 What if God, wanting to show His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much longsuffering (A)the vessels of wrath (B)prepared for destruction, 23 and that He might make known (C)the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had (D)prepared beforehand for glory,
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Romans 2:7
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7 eternal life to those who by patient continuance in doing good seek for glory, honor, and immortality;
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Acts 14:22
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22 strengthening the souls of the disciples, (A)exhorting them to continue in the faith, and saying, (B)“We must through many tribulations enter the kingdom of God.”
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Acts 11:23
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23 When he came and had seen the grace of God, he was glad, and (A)encouraged them all that with purpose of heart they should continue with the Lord.
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John 15:4-10
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4 (A)Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me.
5 “I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much (B)fruit; for without Me you can do (C)nothing. 6 If anyone does not abide in Me, (D)he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned. 7 If you abide in Me, and My words (E)abide in you, (F)you[a] will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you. 8 (G)By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; (H)so you will be My disciples.
Love and Joy Perfected
9 “As the Father (I)loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love. 10 (J)If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love.
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- John 15:7 NU omits you will
Luke 8:15
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15 But the ones that fell on the good ground are those who, having heard the word with a noble and good heart, keep it and bear fruit with (A)patience.[a]
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- Luke 8:15 endurance
Matthew 3:9-10
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9 and do not think to say to yourselves, (A)‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I say to you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones. 10 And even now the ax is laid to the root of the trees. (B)Therefore every tree which does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
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Ezekiel 33:17-19
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17 (A)“Yet the children of your people say, ‘The way of the Lord is not [a]fair.’ But it is their way which is not fair! 18 (B)When the righteous turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, he shall die because of it. 19 But when the wicked turns from his wickedness and does what is lawful and right, he shall live because of it.
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- Ezekiel 33:17 Or equitable
Ezekiel 18:24
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24 “But (A)when a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that the wicked man does, shall he live? (B)All the righteousness which he has done shall not be remembered; because of the unfaithfulness of which he is guilty and the sin which he has committed, because of them he shall die.
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Ezekiel 3:20
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20 “Again, when a (A)righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die; because you did not give him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood I will require at your hand.
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