so that you may walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, to please him in everything, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God,
Y’all didn’t choose me, but I chose y’all and appointed y’all so that y’all would go and bear fruit, and that y’all’s fruit should remain. And so that whatever y’all ask in my name, the Father will give to y’all.
So Jesus answered them, “Truly, I tell y’all, the Son can do nothing by himself, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, the Son also does.
Therefore, my siblings, y’all also were made to die to the law through the body of Christ, so that y’all would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, so that we might bear fruit for God.
which has come to y’all. It is also bearing fruit and growing in all the world, as it does in y’all, since the day y’all heard and knew the grace of God in truth.
However, since that person has no root, they are only temporary. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they fall away.