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Matt. 13:23 KJV (With Strong’s)

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But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruitl, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.

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John 15:5• ⁵I am the vine, ye are the branches. He that abides in me and I in him, *he* bears much fruit; for without me ye can do nothing. (John 15:5)

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Matt. 13:8• ⁸and others fell upon the good ground, and produced fruit, one a hundred, one sixty, and one thirty. (Matt. 13:8)

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Mark 4:20• ²⁰And these are they who have been sown on the good ground, such as hear the word and receive it, and bear fruit; one thirty, and one sixty, and one a hundred fold. (Mark 4:20)

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Luke 8:15• ¹⁵But that in the good ground, these are they who in an honest and good heart, having heard the word keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience. (Luke 8:15)

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Prov. 1:5‑6• ⁵He that is wise will hear, and will increase learning; and the intelligent will gain wise counsels:
⁶to understand a proverb and an allegory, the words of the wise and their enigmas. (Prov. 1:5‑6)

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Prov. 2:2‑6• ²so that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom and thou apply thy heart to understanding;
³yea, if thou criest after discernment and liftest up thy voice to understanding;
⁴if thou seekest her as silver and searchest for her as for hidden treasures:
⁵then shalt thou understand the fear of Jehovah, and find the knowledge of God.
⁶For Jehovah giveth wisdom; out of his mouth come knowledge and understanding. (Prov. 2:2‑6)

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Ezek. 18:31• ³¹Cast away from you all your transgressions wherewith ye have transgressed, and make you a new heart and a new spirit: why then will ye die, house of Israel? (Ezek. 18:31)

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Ezek. 36:26• ²⁶And I will give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh. (Ezek. 36:26)

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Mark 10:15• ¹⁵Verily I say to you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, shall in no wise enter into it. (Mark 10:15)

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John 1:11‑13• ¹¹He came to his own, and his own received him not;
¹²but as many as received him, to them gave he the right to be children of God, to those that believe on his name;
¹³who have been born, not of blood, nor of flesh's will, nor of man's will, but of God. (John 1:11‑13)

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John 8:47• ⁴⁷He that is of God hears the words of God: therefore ye hear them not, because ye are not of God. (John 8:47)

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John 10:26• ²⁶but ye do not believe, for ye are not of my sheep, as I told you. (John 10:26)

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John 10:27• ²⁷My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me; (John 10:27)

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John 17:7‑8• ⁷Now they have known that all things that thou hast given me are of thee;
⁸for the words which thou hast given me I have given them, and they have received them, and have known truly that I came out from thee, and have believed that thou sentest me. (John 17:7‑8)

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Acts 16:14• ¹⁴And a certain woman, by name Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, who worshipped God, heard; whose heart the Lord opened to attend to the things spoken by Paul. (Acts 16:14)

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Acts 17:11• ¹¹And these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, receiving the word with all readiness of mind, daily searching the scriptures if these things were so. (Acts 17:11)

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2 Thess. 2:10,13‑14• ¹⁰and in all deceit of unrighteousness to them that perish, because they have not received the love of the truth that they might be saved.
¹³But we ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, that God has chosen you from the beginning to salvation in sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:
¹⁴whereto he has called you by our glad tidings, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. (2 Thess. 2:10,13‑14)

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Heb. 4:2• ²For indeed we have had glad tidings presented to us, even as they also; but the word of the report did not profit *them*, not being mixed with faith in those who heard. (Heb. 4:2)

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Heb. 8:10• ¹⁰Because this is the covenant that I will covenant to the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord: Giving my laws into their mind, I will write them also upon their hearts; and I will be to them for God, and *they* shall be to me for people. (Heb. 8:10)

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James 1:21‑22• ²¹Wherefore, laying aside all filthiness and abounding of wickedness, accept with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
²²But be ye doers of the word and not hearers only, beguiling yourselves. (James 1:21‑22)

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1 Peter 2:1‑2• ¹Laying aside therefore all malice and all guile and hypocrisies and envyings and all evil speakings,
²as newborn babes desire earnestly the pure mental milk of the word, that by it ye may grow up to salvation, (1 Peter 2:1‑2)

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1 John 5:20• ²⁰And we know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding that we should know him that is true; and we are in him that is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life. (1 John 5:20)

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Matt. 3:8,10• ⁸Produce therefore fruit worthy of repentance.
¹⁰And already the axe is applied to the root of the trees; every tree therefore not producing good fruit is cut down and cast into the fire. (Matt. 3:8,10)

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Matt. 12:33• ³³Either make the tree good, and its fruit good; or make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt. For from the fruit the tree is known. (Matt. 12:33)

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Psa. 1:1‑3• ¹Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the wicked, and standeth not in the way of sinners, and sitteth not in the seat of scorners;
²But his delight is in Jehovah's law, and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
³And he is as a tree planted by brooks of water, which giveth its fruit in its season, and whose leaf fadeth not; and all that he doeth prospereth. (Psa. 1:1‑3)

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Psa. 92:13‑15• ¹³Those that are planted in the house of Jehovah shall flourish in the courts of our God:
¹⁴They are still vigorous in old age, they are full of sap and green;
¹⁵To shew that Jehovah is upright: he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him. (Psa. 92:13‑15)

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Luke 6:43‑44• ⁴³For there is no good tree which produces corrupt fruit, nor a corrupt tree which produces good fruit;
⁴⁴for every tree is known by its own fruit, for figs are not gathered from thorns, nor grapes vintaged from a bramble. (Luke 6:43‑44)

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Luke 13:9• ⁹and if it shall bear fruit--but if not, after that thou shalt cut it down. (Luke 13:9)

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John 15:1‑8,16• ¹I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
²As to every branch in me not bearing fruit, he takes it away; and as to every one bearing fruit, he purges it that it may bring forth more fruit.
³Ye are already clean by reason of the word which I have spoken to you.
⁴Abide in me and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abide in the vine, thus neither can ye unless ye abide in me.
⁵I am the vine, ye are the branches. He that abides in me and I in him, *he* bears much fruit; for without me ye can do nothing.
⁶Unless any one abide in me he is cast out as the branch, and is dried up; and they gather them and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.
⁷If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will and it shall come to pass to you.
⁸In this is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit, and ye shall become disciples of mine.
¹⁶Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and have set you that ye should go and that ye should bear fruit, and that your fruit should abide, that whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name he may give you. (John 15:1‑8,16)

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Gal. 5:22‑23• ²²But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, fidelity,
²³meekness, self-control: against such things there is no law. (Gal. 5:22‑23)

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Phil. 1:11• ¹¹being complete as regards the fruit of righteousness, which is by Jesus Christ, to God's glory and praise. (Phil. 1:11)

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Phil. 4:17• ¹⁷Not that I seek gift, but I seek fruit abounding to your account. (Phil. 4:17)

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Col. 1:6,10• ⁶which are come to you, as they are in all the world, and are bearing fruit and growing, even as also among you, from the day ye heard them and knew indeed the grace of God, in truth:
¹⁰so as to walk worthily of the Lord unto all well-pleasing, bearing fruit in every good work, and growing by the true knowledge of God; (Col. 1:6,10)

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Heb. 6:7• ⁷For ground which drinks the rain which comes often upon it, and produces useful herbs for those for whose sakes also it is tilled, partakes of blessing from God; (Heb. 6:7)

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Heb. 13:15‑16• ¹⁵By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise continually to God, that is, the fruit of the lips confessing his name.
¹⁶But of doing good and communicating of your substance be not forgetful, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased. (Heb. 13:15‑16)

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2 Cor. 8:1‑2• ¹But we make known to you, brethren, the grace of God bestowed in the assemblies of Macedonia;
²that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty has abounded to the riches of their free-hearted liberality. (2 Cor. 8:1‑2)

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2 Cor. 9:10• ¹⁰Now he that supplies seed to the sower and bread for eating shall supply and make abundant your sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness: (2 Cor. 9:10)

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1 Thess. 4:1• ¹For the rest, then, brethren, we beg you and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, even as ye have received from us how ye ought to walk and please God, even as ye also do walk, that ye would abound still more. (1 Thess. 4:1)

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2 Peter 1:5‑8• ⁵But for this very reason also, using therewith all diligence, in your faith have also virtue, in virtue knowledge,
⁶in knowledge temperance, in temperance endurance, in endurance godliness,
⁷in godliness brotherly love, in brotherly love love:
⁸for these things existing and abounding in you make you to be neither idle nor unfruitful as regards the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ; (2 Peter 1:5‑8)

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2 Peter 3:18• ¹⁸but grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen. (2 Peter 3:18)

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J. N. Darby Translation

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But he that is sown upon the good ground—this is he who hears and understands the word, who bears fruit also, and produces, one a hundred, one sixty, and one thirty.

W. Kelly Translation

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But he that is sown upon the good ground — this is he who hears and understands the word, who bears fruit also, and produces, one a hundred, one sixty, and one thirty.

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(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)