2 Peter 1:8

Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.

And let ours also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they be not unfruitful. maintain...: or, profess honest trades

That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,

And by their prayer for you, which long after you for the exceeding grace of God in you.

And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment; judgment: or, sense

Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.

We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth;

Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.

And he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace,