By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be cleansed away; and this is all the result to take away his sin; when he makes all the stones of the altar as chalk stones that are beaten in pieces, the groves and images shall not stand again.
And some of them of understanding shall fall, to refine them, and to purify, and to make them white, even to the time of the end: because it is yet for a time appointed.
Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come to us as the rain, as the latter and former rain to the earth.
And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and refine them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness.
Another parable spoke he to them; The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.
And when he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it, and found nothing on it, but leaves only, and said to it, Let no fruit grow on you from now on for ever. And soon after the fig tree withered away.
And now also the axe is laid to the root of the trees: therefore every tree which does not bring forth good fruit is cut down, and thrown into the fire.
Whose winnowing fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.
And these are those who are sown on good ground; those who hear the word, and receive it, and bring forth fruit, some thirty fold, some sixty, and some a hundred.
Those on the rock are those who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away.
You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and appointed you, that you should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatever you shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.
And if some of the branches are broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and with them partake of the root and fatness of the olive tree;
Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness: otherwise you also shall be cut off.
They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made known that they were not all of us.