But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life.
Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God.
and, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness.
For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.
For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.
and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
For he who was called in the Lord as a bondservant is a freedman of the Lord. Likewise he who was free when called is a bondservant of Christ.
obtaining the outcome of your faith, the salvation of your souls.
For am I now seeking the approval of man, or of God? Or am I trying to please man? If I were still trying to please man, I would not be a servant of Christ.
For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.
no weapon that is fashioned against you shall succeed, and you shall refute every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord and their vindication from me, declares the Lord.”
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
so as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him: bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God;
Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God.
But what fruit were you getting at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the door of the burning fiery furnace; he declared, “Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, servants of the Most High God, come out, and come here!” Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego came out from the fire.
And in your steadfast love you will cut off my enemies, and you will destroy all the adversaries of my soul, for I am your servant.
Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, for the sake of the faith of God's elect and their knowledge of the truth, which accords with godliness,
Not that I seek the gift, but I seek the fruit that increases to your credit.
filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
(for the fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true),
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.
You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
Already the one who reaps is receiving wages and gathering fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together.
And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or lands, for my name's sake, will receive a hundredfold and will inherit eternal life.
Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear.
Just as the weeds are gathered and burned with fire, so will it be at the end of the age.
They still bear fruit in old age; they are ever full of sap and green,
Mark the blameless and behold the upright, for there is a future for the man of peace. But transgressors shall be altogether destroyed; the future of the wicked shall be cut off.
And the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil?”
Who can count the dust of Jacob or number the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the upright, and let my end be like his!”
‘Say to Joseph, “Please forgive the transgression of your brothers and their sin, because they did evil to you.”’ And now, please forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of your father.” Joseph wept when they spoke to him.
Then one of the elders addressed me, saying, “Who are these, clothed in white robes, and from where have they come?”
James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes in the Dispersion: Greetings.
As he came near to the den where Daniel was, he cried out in a tone of anguish. The king declared to Daniel, “O Daniel, servant of the living God, has your God, whom you serve continually, been able to deliver you from the lions?”
Preserve my life, for I am godly; save your servant, who trusts in you—you are my God.
Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, greets you, always struggling on your behalf in his prayers, that you may stand mature and fully assured in all the will of God.
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