Matthew 7:17

17So, aevery healthy tree bears good fruit, but the diseased tree bears bad fruit.

Romans 8:1

Life in the Spirit

1There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
Some manuscripts add who walk not according to the flesh (but according to the Spirit)

2 Corinthians 5:17

17Therefore, if anyone is cin Christ, he is da new creation.
Or creature
fThe old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

2 Corinthians 7:1

1Since we have these promises, beloved, glet us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body
Greek flesh
and spirit, bringing holiness to completion in the fear of God.

1 Thessalonians 1:3-10

3remembering before iour God and Father jyour work of faith and labor of klove and lsteadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ. 4For we know, mbrothers
Or  brothers and sisters. The plural Greek word adelphoi (translated “brothers”) refers to siblings in a family. In New Testament usage, depending on the context, adelphoi may refer either to men or to both men and women who are siblings (brothers and sisters) in God’s family, the church
loved by God, othat he has chosen you,
5because pour gospel came to you not only in word, but also in power and qin the Holy Spirit and with full rconviction. You know swhat kind of men we proved to be among you for your sake. 6And tyou became imitators of us uand of the Lord, for vyou received the word in much affliction, wwith the xjoy of the Holy Spirit, 7so that you became an example to all the believers in Macedonia and in Achaia. 8For not only has the word of the Lord ysounded forth from you in Macedonia and Achaia, but your faith in God has gone forth zeverywhere, so that we need not say anything. 9For they themselves report concerning us the kind of aareception we had among you, and how abyou turned to God acfrom idols to serve the living and adtrue God, 10and aeto wait for his Son affrom heaven, agwhom he raised from the dead, Jesus ahwho delivers us from aithe wrath to come.

1 Timothy 1:5

5The aim of our charge is love ajthat issues from a pure heart and aka good conscience and ala sincere faith.

James 2:22-25

22You see that amfaith was active along with his works, and faith was completed anby his works; 23and the Scripture was fulfilled that says, aoAbraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”—and he was called a apfriend of God. 24You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone. 25And in the same way was not also aqRahab the prostitute justified by works arwhen she received the messengers and sent them out by another way?

James 3:13

Wisdom from Above

13Who is wise and understanding among you? asBy his good conduct let him show his works atin the meekness of wisdom.
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