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Remember your leaders who have spoken God’s word to you. As you carefully observe the outcome of their lives, imitate their faith.
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Don’t be led astray by various kinds of strange teachings; for it is good for the heart to be established by grace and not by food regulations, since those who observe them have not benefited.
On that day Jesus went out of the house and was sitting by the sea.
Such large crowds gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat down, while the whole crowd stood on the shore.
Then he told them many things in parables, saying, “Consider the sower who went out to sow.
As he sowed, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured them.
Other seed fell on rocky ground where it didn’t have much soil, and it grew up quickly since the soil wasn’t deep.
But when the sun came up, it was scorched, and since it had no root, it withered away.
Other seed fell among thorns, and the thorns came up and choked it.
Still other seed fell on good ground and produced fruit: some a hundred, some sixty, and some thirty times what was sown.
Let anyone who has ears listen.”
When he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, “Brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?
Therefore produce fruit consistent with repentance.
And don’t presume to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you that God is able to raise up children for Abraham from these stones.
The ax is already at the root of the trees. Therefore, every tree that doesn’t produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.
“Either make the tree good and its fruit will be good, or make the tree bad and its fruit will be bad; for a tree is known by its fruit.
Brood of vipers! How can you speak good things when you are evil? For the mouth speaks from the overflow of the heart.
A good person produces good things from his storeroom of good, and an evil person produces evil things from his storeroom of evil.
I tell you that on the day of judgment people will have to account for every careless word they speak.
For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.”
“Be on your guard against false prophets who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravaging wolves.
You’ll recognize them by their fruit. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes or figs from thistles?
In the same way, every good tree produces good fruit, but a bad tree produces bad fruit.
A good tree can’t produce bad fruit; neither can a bad tree produce good fruit.
Every tree that doesn’t produce good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
So you’ll recognize them by their fruit.
For this reason also, since the day we heard this, we haven’t stopped praying for you. We are asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,
so that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him: bearing fruit in every good work and growing in the knowledge of God,
“So listen to the parable of the sower:
When anyone hears the word about the kingdom and doesn’t understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is the one sown along the path.
And the one sown on rocky ground—this is one who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy.
But he has no root and is short-lived. When distress or persecution comes because of the word, immediately he falls away.
Now the one sown among the thorns—this is one who hears the word, but the worries of this age and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.
But the one sown on the good ground—this is one who hears and understands the word, who does produce fruit and yields: some a hundred, some sixty, some thirty times what was sown.”
Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is abundant, but the workers are few.
Therefore, pray to the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into his harvest.”