Matthew 7:17
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit.”
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“Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but the corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“so every good tree doth yield good fruits, but the bad tree doth yield evil fruits.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Matthew 7:17 — 14 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Psalms 1:3He is like a tree planted by streams of water, yielding its fruit in season, whose leaf does not wither, and who prospers in all he does.
- Psalms 92:13Planted in the house of the LORD, they will flourish in the courts of our God.
- Isaiah 5:3“And now, O dwellers of Jerusalem and men of Judah, I exhort you to judge between Me and My vineyard.
- Isaiah 61:3to console the mourners in Zion— to give them a crown of beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, and a garment of praise for a spirit of despair. So they will be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified.
- Jeremiah 11:19For I was like a gentle lamb led to slaughter; I did not know that they had plotted against me: “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit; let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be remembered no more.”
- Jeremiah 17:8He is like a tree planted by the waters that sends out its roots toward the stream. It does not fear when the heat comes, and its leaves are always green. It does not worry in a year of drought, nor does it cease to produce fruit.
- Matthew 12:33Make a tree good and its fruit will be good, or make a tree bad and its fruit will be bad; for a tree is known by its fruit.
- Luke 13:6Then Jesus told this parable: “A man had a fig tree that was planted in his vineyard. He went to look for fruit on it, but did not find any.
- Galatians 5:22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
- Ephesians 5:9for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness, and truth.
- Philippians 1:11filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
- Colossians 1:10so that you may walk in a manner worthy of the Lord and may please Him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God,
- James 3:17But the wisdom from above is first of all pure, then peace-loving, gentle, accommodating, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial, and sincere.
- Jude 1:12These men are hidden reefs in your love feasts, shamelessly feasting with you but shepherding only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried along by the wind; fruitless trees in autumn, twice dead after being uprooted.
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