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⁷Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, for the Lord will be his confidence. ⁸And he will be like a tree planted beside waters, which sends out its roots to moist soil. And it will not fear when the heat arrives. And its leaves will be green. And in the time of drought, it will not be anxious, nor will it cease at any time to bear fruit.

⁶Therefore, just as you have received the Lord Jesus Christ, walk in him. ⁷Be rooted and continually built up in Christ. And be confirmed in the faith, just as you have also learned it, increasing in him with acts of thanksgiving.

³And he will be like a tree that has been planted beside running waters, which will provide its fruit in its time, and its leaf will not fall away, and all things whatsoever that he does will prosper.

¹⁷But they have no root in themselves, and so they are for a limited time. And when next tribulation and persecution arises because of the word, they quickly fall away.

¹⁶And I ask him to grant to you to be strengthened in virtue by his Spirit, in accord with the wealth of his glory, in the inner man, ¹⁷so that Christ may live in your hearts through a faith rooted in, and founded on, charity. ¹⁸So may you be able to embrace, with all the saints, what is the width and length and height and depth ¹⁹of the charity of Christ, and even be able to know that which surpasses all knowledge, so that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

¹⁵Be contemplative, lest anyone lack the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness spring up and impede you, and by it, many might be defiled,

³And he spoke many things to them in parables, saying: “Behold, a sower went out to sow seed. ⁴And while he was sowing, some fell beside the road, and the birds of the air came and ate it. ⁵Then others fell in a rocky place, where they did not have much soil. And they sprung up promptly, because they had no depth of soil. ⁶But when the sun rose up, they were scorched, and because they had no roots, they withered. ⁷Still others fell among thorns, and the thorns increased and suffocated them. ⁸Yet some others fell upon good soil, and they produced fruit: some one hundred fold, some sixty fold, some thirty fold.

⁶But when the sun rose up, they were scorched, and because they had no roots, they withered.

⁸And he will be like a tree planted beside waters, which sends out its roots to moist soil. And it will not fear when the heat arrives. And its leaves will be green. And in the time of drought, it will not be anxious, nor will it cease at any time to bear fruit.

⁷Be rooted and continually built up in Christ. And be confirmed in the faith, just as you have also learned it, increasing in him with acts of thanksgiving.

¹⁷so that Christ may live in your hearts through a faith rooted in, and founded on, charity.

⁶And when the sun was risen, it was scorched. And because it had no root, it withered away.

¹⁶For if the first-fruit has been sanctified, so also has the whole. And if the root is holy, so also are the branches.