So what benefit ¹  did you then reap ²  from those things that you are now ashamed of? For the end of those things is death.

Therefore after I have completed this and have safely delivered this bounty to them, ¹  I will set out for Spain by way of you,

But the fruit of the Spirit ¹  is love, ²  joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, ³ 

Now if I am to go on living in the body, ¹  this will mean productive work ²  for me, yet I don’t know which I prefer: ³ 

I do not say this because I am seeking a gift. ¹  Rather, I seek the credit that abounds to your account.

Then ¹  he prayed again, and the sky gave rain and the land sprouted with a harvest.

Even now the ax is laid at ¹  the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.

But other seeds fell on good soil and produced grain, some a hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.

They said to him, “He will utterly destroy those evil men! Then he will lease the vineyard to other tenants who will give him his portion at the harvest.”

For this reason I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken from you and given to a people ¹  who will produce its fruit.

Other seed fell among the thorns, ¹  and they grew up and choked it, ²  and it did not produce grain.

He said to it, ¹  “May no one ever eat fruit from you again.” And his disciples heard it. ² 

At harvest time he sent a slave ¹  to the tenants to collect from them ²  his portion of the crop. ³ 

She ¹  exclaimed with a loud voice, ²  “Blessed are you among women, ³  and blessed is the child ⁴  in your womb!

Even now the ax is laid at the root of the trees, ¹  and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be ²  cut down and thrown into the fire.”

for each tree is known ¹  by its own fruit. For figs are not gathered ²  from thorns, nor are grapes picked ³  from brambles. ⁴ 

When harvest time came, he sent a slave ¹  to the tenants so that they would give ²  him his portion of the crop. ³  However, the tenants beat his slave ⁴  and sent him away empty-handed.

The one who reaps receives pay ¹  and gathers fruit for eternal life, so that the one who sows and the one who reaps can rejoice together.

So then, because ¹  he was a prophet and knew that God had sworn to him with an oath to seat one of his descendants ²  on his throne, ³ 

But now, freed ¹  from sin and enslaved to God, you have your benefit ²  leading to sanctification, and the end is eternal life.