Your obedience to Jesus brings blessings and produces an abundant life in Christ.

“And she [Ruth] said to her [Naomi], All that you say to me I will do.” (Ruth 3:5)

“Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us” (Eph 3:20)

“I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.” (Jn 10:10)

“Not everyone who says to Me, Lord, Lord, shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven.” (Matt 7:21)

“But why do you call Me Lord, Lord, and not do the things which I say?” (Lk 6:46)

“If you love Me, keep My commandments.” (Jn 14:15)

“Jesus answered and said to him, If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.” (Jn 14:23)

“If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love.” (Jn 15:10)

“as His divine power [theios dunamis] has given [doreomai] to us all things that pertain [pros] to life and godliness [eusegeia]” (2Pet 1:3)

“by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature [theios phusis], having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust [epithumia]” (2Pet 1:4)

“But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts [epithumia].” (Rom 13:14)

“But as it is written: Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared [hetoimazo] for those who love Him.” (1Cor 2:9)

“As you go, make disciples [matheteuo] of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching [didasko] them to observe [tereo] all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age. Amen.” (Matt 28:19-20)

“And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart.” (Gal 6:9)

“but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life.” (Gal 6:8)

“Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life.” (Jn 5:24)

“Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.” (Rom 6:4)

“There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.” (Rom 8:1)

“I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.” (Gal 5:16)

“If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.” (Gal 5:25)

“For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.” (Rom 8:6)

“The fear of the LORD leads to life, and he who has it will abide in satisfaction; He will not be visited with evil.” (Prov 19:23)

“Enter by the narrow [stenos] gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow [stenos] is the gate and difficult [thlibo=trouble, affliction] is the way which leads to life, and there are few [oligos] who find it.” (Matt 7:13-14)

“See, I have set before you today life and good, death and evil, in that I command you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments, His statutes, and His judgments, that you may live and multiply; and the LORD your God will bless you in the land which you go to possess.” (Deut 30:15-16)

Reading: Ruth 3-4; Mk 12