For if we have been united with him in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
Buried with him in baptism, in which also you are risen with him through the faith of the working of God, who has raised him from the dead.
Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.
If you then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sits on the right hand of God.
But he answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father has not planted, shall be rooted up.
Yet I had planted you a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then are you turned into the degenerate plant of a wild vine unto me?
And he dug it, and gathered out its stones, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress in it: and he expected that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.
Those that are planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of our God.
Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it abides alone: but if it dies, it brings forth much fruit.