²¹ It is like leaven, which a woman put into three measures of meal, and it was all leavened.

³³ Another story he gave to them: The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took, and put in three measures of meal, till it was all leavened.

⁶ This pride of yours is not good. Do you not see that a little leaven makes a change in all the mass?

²¹ For this reason, putting away all dirty behaviour and the overweight of evil, take into your souls without pride the word which, being planted there, is able to give you salvation.

²³ And may the God of peace himself make you holy in every way; and may your spirit and soul and body be free from all sin at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

²⁴ God, by whom you have been marked out in his purpose, is unchanging and will make it complete.

⁹ And my prayer is that you may be increased more and more in knowledge and experience;

¹⁰ So that you may give your approval to the best things; that you may be true and without wrongdoing till the day of Christ;

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

⁶ For I am certain of this very thing, that he by whom the good work was started in you will make it complete till the day of Jesus Christ:

² He takes away every branch in me which has no fruit, and every branch which has fruit he makes clean, so that it may have more fruit.

¹⁴ But whoever takes the water I give him will never be in need of drink again; for the water I give him will become in him a fountain of eternal life.

³ And let us have knowledge, let us go after the knowledge of the Lord; his going out is certain as the dawn, his decisions go out like the light; he will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain watering the earth.

¹⁸ But the way of the upright is like the light of early morning, getting brighter and brighter till the full day.

¹³ Those who are planted in the house of the Lord will come up tall and strong in his gardens.

¹⁴ They will give fruit even when they are old; they will be fertile and full of growth;

⁹ Still the upright keeps on his way, and he who has clean hands gets new strength.