which has come to you, just as in all the world also it is bearing fruit and increasing, even as it has been doing in you also since the day you heard it and understood the grace of God in truth;

so that you will walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, to please Him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God;

Some people have strayed from these things and have turned aside to fruitless discussion,

For the moment, all discipline seems not to be pleasant, but painful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness.

God-pleasing Sacrifices

Through Him then, let’s continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips praising His name.

In the exercise of His will He gave us birth by the word of truth, so that we would be a kind of first fruits among His creatures.

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peace-loving, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial, free of hypocrisy.

And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.

Then he prayed again, and the sky poured rain and the earth produced its fruit.

These are the ones who are hidden reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you without fear, like shepherds caring only for themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, doubly dead, uprooted;

These are the ones who have not defiled themselves with women, for they are celibate. These are the ones who follow the Lamb wherever He goes. These have been purchased from mankind as first fruits to God and to the Lamb.

The fruit you long for has left you, and all things that were luxurious and splendid have passed away from you and people will no longer find them.

in the middle of its street. On either side of the river was the tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit every month; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.