And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivulets of waters, which will give its fruit in its seasons, and its leaf will not wither, and all which he does will prosper.
Ephraim shall say, What is it to me any more with idols? I answered him, and I regarded him. I am as a green cypress tree; your fruit is found from Me.
You have not chosen Me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and should bear fruit, and your fruit remain, that whatever you may ask the Father in My name, He may give you.
I am the Vine; you are the branches. The one abiding in Me, and I in him, this one bears much fruit, because without Me you are not able to produce, not one thing.
Now, my brothers, I myself also am persuaded concerning you, that you yourselves also are full of goodness, having been filled with all knowledge, being able to admonish one another.
For also Christ did not please Himself, but even as it has been written, “The reproaches of the ones reproaching You fell on Me.” LXX-Psa. 68:10; MT-Psa. 69:9
So that, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, for you to become Another’s, to the One having been raised from the dead, so that we may bear fruit to God.
Having purified your souls in the obedience of the truth through the Spirit to unpretended brotherly love, love one another fervently out of a pure heart,
I wrote to you by a few words by way of Silvanus the faithful brother, as I reckon, exhorting and witnessing this to be the true grace of God, in which you stand.