"Blessed is everyone that feareth the Lord... Happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee. Thy wife shall be as the fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table" (Psalm 128:1-3). "The root of the righteous yieldeth fruit.... A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth" (Proverbs 12:12,14). "And when He saw a fig tree in the way, He came to it , and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said unto it, Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward forever. And presently the fig tree withered away" (Matthew 21:19).
The goodly fruit of godly fear
Is given by the Savior.
We taste it in the words we hear,
We see it in behavior.
Lord, grant in us this goodly fruit
Through what we say and do.
Lord, give to us that righteous root
That yields fruit for You.
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