⁵ I am the vine, you are the branches: he who is in me at all times as I am in him, gives much fruit, because without me you are able to do nothing.

¹³ I am able to do all things through him who gives me strength.

¹⁰ Living uprightly in the approval of the Lord, giving fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

² May grace and peace ever be increasing in you, in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord;

³ Because by his power he has given us everything necessary for life and righteousness, through the knowledge of him who has been our guide by his glory and virtue;

⁴ And through this he has given us the hope of great rewards highly to be valued; so that by them we might have our part in God's being, and be made free from the destruction which is in the world through the desires of the flesh.

⁵ So, for this very cause, take every care; joining virtue to faith, and knowledge to virtue,

⁶ And self-control to knowledge, and a quiet mind to self-control, and fear of God to a quiet mind,

⁷ And love of the brothers to fear of God, and to love of the brothers, love itself.

⁸ For if you have these things in good measure, they will make you fertile and full of fruit in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁹ For the man who has not these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having no memory of how he was made clean from his old sins.

¹⁰ For this reason, my brothers, take all the more care to make your selection and approval certain; for if you do these things you will never have a fall:

¹¹ For so the way will be open to you into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

¹² For this reason I will be ready at all times to keep your memory of these things awake, though you have the knowledge of them now and are well based in your present faith.

¹³ And it seems right to me, as long as I am in this tent of flesh, to keep your minds awake by working on your memory;

¹⁴ For I am conscious that in a short time I will have to put off this tent of flesh, as our Lord Jesus Christ has made clear to me.

¹⁵ And I will take every care so that you may have a clear memory of these things after my death.

¹⁶ For when we gave you news of the power and the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, our teaching was not based on stories put together by art, but we were eye-witnesses of his glory.

¹⁷ For God the Father gave him honour and glory, when such a voice came to him out of the great glory, saying, This is my dearly loved Son, with whom I am well pleased.

¹⁸ And this voice came from heaven even to our ears, when we were with him on the holy mountain.

³⁰ The fruit of righteousness is a tree of life, but violent behaviour takes away souls.

¹⁷ Every good and true thing is given to us from heaven, coming from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change or any shade made by turning.

¹⁶ You did not take me for yourselves, but I took you for myself; and I gave you the work of going about and producing fruit which will be for ever; so that whatever request you make to the Father in my name he may give it to you.

²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, a quiet mind, kind acts, well-doing, faith,

¹⁸ But be increased in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. May he have glory now and for ever. So be it.

¹¹ Being full of the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

⁴ In the same way, my brothers, you were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, even to him who came again from the dead, so that we might give fruit to God.

¹² And in no other is there salvation: for there is no other name under heaven, given among men, through which we may have salvation.

¹⁹ So Jesus made answer and said, Truly I say to you, The Son is not able to do anything himself; he is able to do only what he sees the Father doing; whatever the Father does the Son does it in the same way.

¹⁷ Not that I am looking for an offering, but for fruit which may be put to your credit.

⁶ And he made up this story for them: A certain man had a fig-tree in his garden, and he came to get fruit from it, and there was no fruit.

⁷ And he said to the gardener, See, for three years I have been looking for fruit from this tree, and I have not had any: let it be cut down; why is it taking up space?

⁸ And he said, Lord, let it be for this year, and I will have the earth turned up round it, and put animal waste on it, to make it fertile:

⁹ And if, after that, it has fruit, it is well; if not, let it be cut down.

³³ If this man did not come from God he would be unable to do anything.

⁸ Because we are able to do nothing against what is true, but only for it.

²² But now, being free from sin, and having been made servants to God, you have your fruit in that which is holy, and the end is eternal life.

¹⁰ And he who gives seed for putting into the field and bread for food, will take care of the growth of your seed, at the same time increasing the fruits of your righteousness;

⁴ To whom you come, as to a living stone, not honoured by men, but of great and special value to God;

⁶ Which has come to you; and which in all the world is giving fruit and increase, as it has done in you from the day when it came to your ears and you had true knowledge of the grace of God;

²⁴ Truly I say to you, If a seed of grain does not go into the earth and come to an end, it is still a seed and no more; but through its death it gives much fruit.

⁵ So we, though we are a number of persons, are one body in Christ, and are dependent on one another;

⁸ The sin of my people is like food to them; and their desire is for their wrongdoing.

¹⁶ The cup of blessing which we take, does it not give us a part in the blood of Christ? and is not the broken bread a taking part in the body of Christ?

⁹ (Because the fruit of the light is in all righteousness and in everything which is good and true),

²⁷ Now you are the body of Christ, and every one of you the separate parts of it.

¹² For as the body is one, and has a number of parts, and all the parts make one body, so is Christ.