Matthew 7:17

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In the same way, every good tree produces good fruit, but a bad tree produces bad fruit.

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  • Ps 1:3 : 3 He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in its season, and whose leaf does not wither; whatever he does prospers.
  • Ps 92:13-14 : 13 The righteous will flourish like a palm tree; they will grow like a cedar of Lebanon. 14 Planted in the house of the LORD, they will flourish in the courts of our God.
  • Isa 5:3-5 : 3 Now then, you inhabitants of Jerusalem and people of Judah, judge between me and my vineyard. 4 What more could I have done for my vineyard than I have already done? Why, when I expected it to produce good grapes, did it yield only wild ones? 5 Now let me tell you what I am about to do to my vineyard: I will remove its hedge, and it will be destroyed; I will break down its wall, and it will be trampled.
  • Gal 5:22-24 : 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law. 24 Now those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
  • Eph 5:9 : 9 (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, righteousness, and truth.)
  • Matt 12:33-35 : 33 Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree bad and its fruit bad, for a tree is known by its fruit. 34 You brood of vipers! How can you speak good things when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. 35 The good person brings out good things from the good treasure of his heart, and the evil person brings out evil things from his evil treasure.
  • Luke 13:6-9 : 6 Then he told this parable: 'A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came looking for fruit on it but found none.' 7 He said to the gardener, 'For three years I’ve been coming to look for fruit on this fig tree and haven’t found any. Cut it down! Why should it use up the soil?' 8 'Sir,' the gardener replied, 'leave it alone for one more year, and I’ll dig around it and fertilize it.' 9 If it bears fruit next year, fine! But if not, then cut it down.'
  • Phil 1:11 : 11 Filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
  • Col 1:10 : 10 so that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and please Him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God,
  • Jas 3:17-18 : 17 But the wisdom that comes from above is first pure, then peace-loving, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial, and sincere. 18 And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.
  • Jude 1:12 : 12 These are hidden reefs in your love feasts, feasting with you fearlessly, shepherding only themselves. They are waterless clouds, carried along by the winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, uprooted.
  • Isa 61:3 : 3 To provide for those who mourn in Zion—giving them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, a garment of praise instead of a spirit of faintness. They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the Lord to display His splendor.
  • Jer 11:19 : 19 I was like a gentle lamb being led to the slaughter. I did not realize they had plotted against me, saying, ‘Let us destroy the tree with its fruit; let us cut him off from the land of the living, so that his name will never be remembered again.’
  • Jer 17:8 : 8 They will be like a tree planted by water, stretching out its roots by a stream. It will not fear when heat comes, and its leaves remain green. It will not worry in a year of drought or cease to produce fruit.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Matt 7:18-21
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    18 A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot produce good fruit.

    19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

    20 So then, you will recognize them by their fruits.

    21 Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

  • Luke 6:43-45
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    43 No good tree bears bad fruit, nor does a bad tree bear good fruit.

    44 Each tree is recognized by its own fruit. People do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they pick grapes from bramble bushes.

    45 A good person brings good things out of the good stored up in their heart, and an evil person brings evil things out of the evil stored up in their heart. For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.

  • Matt 12:33-35
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    33 Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree bad and its fruit bad, for a tree is known by its fruit.

    34 You brood of vipers! How can you speak good things when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

    35 The good person brings out good things from the good treasure of his heart, and the evil person brings out evil things from his evil treasure.

  • Matt 7:15-16
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    15 Beware of false prophets who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.

    16 You will recognize them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?

  • Luke 3:9
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    9 The axe is already laid at the root of the trees, so every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.

  • Matt 3:10
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    10 Even now the axe is laid at the root of the trees. Therefore, every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.

  • Matt 3:8
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    8 Produce fruit in keeping with repentance.

  • Luke 13:9
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    9 If it bears fruit next year, fine! But if not, then cut it down.'

  • John 15:2
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    2 He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful.

  • Luke 8:15
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    15 But the seed on good soil represents those with a noble and good heart, who hear the word, retain it, and produce a harvest through perseverance.

  • Luke 13:6-7
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    6 Then he told this parable: 'A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came looking for fruit on it but found none.'

    7 He said to the gardener, 'For three years I’ve been coming to look for fruit on this fig tree and haven’t found any. Cut it down! Why should it use up the soil?'

  • Prov 11:30
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    30 The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and the one who wins souls is wise.

  • Ezek 17:8
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    8 It was planted in fertile soil by abundant waters to produce branches, bear fruit, and become a splendid vine.

  • Jas 3:10-12
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    10 Out of the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things should not be this way.

    11 Does a spring pour forth both sweet and bitter water from the same opening?

    12 Can a fig tree, my brothers, bear olives, or a grapevine produce figs? Neither can a salt spring yield fresh water.

  • Eph 5:9
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    9 (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, righteousness, and truth.)

  • Matt 15:13
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    13 He answered, “Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be pulled up by the roots.

  • Prov 12:12
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    12 The wicked desire the plunder of evildoers, but the root of the righteous flourishes.

  • Matt 21:19
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    19 Seeing a lone fig tree by the road, he went to it, but found nothing on it except leaves. He said to it, 'May no fruit ever come from you again!' And immediately, the fig tree withered.

  • Mark 4:7
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    7 Other seed fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it, so it didn’t produce any grain.

  • Mark 7:21
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    21 For from within, out of the human heart, come evil thoughts, sexual immoralities, thefts, murders,

  • John 15:4-6
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    4 Remain in me, as I also remain in you. Just as a branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, neither can you unless you remain in me.

    5 I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever remains in me and I in him will bear much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

    6 If anyone does not remain in me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned.

  • Gal 6:7-8
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    7 Do not be deceived: God is not mocked. For whatever a person sows, that they will also reap.

    8 The one who sows to their flesh will reap decay from the flesh, but the one who sows to the Spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit.

  • Jer 17:8
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    8 They will be like a tree planted by water, stretching out its roots by a stream. It will not fear when heat comes, and its leaves remain green. It will not worry in a year of drought or cease to produce fruit.

  • Prov 10:16
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    16 The wages of the righteous lead to life, but the income of the wicked leads to sin.

  • Mark 7:23
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    23 All these evils come from within and defile a person.

  • Matt 15:18-19
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    18 But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these defile a person.

    19 For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual immoralities, thefts, false testimonies, and slanders.

  • Matt 13:48
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    48 When it was full, the fishermen pulled it onto the shore. Then they sat down and gathered the good fish into baskets, but threw the bad ones away.

  • Prov 15:4
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    4 A soothing tongue is a tree of life, but a perverse tongue crushes the spirit.

  • Heb 6:8
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    8 But if it bears thorns and thistles, it is worthless and near to being cursed, and its end is to be burned.

  • Luke 21:29
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    29 Then he told them a parable: 'Look at the fig tree and all the trees.'

  • Jer 24:3
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    3 Then the LORD said to me, "What do you see, Jeremiah?" And I answered, "Figs. The good figs are very good, but the bad ones are so bad they cannot be eaten."

  • Isa 3:10
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    10 Tell the righteous that it will go well for them, for they will enjoy the fruit of their deeds.

  • Prov 13:2
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    2 From the fruit of their lips, people enjoy good things, but the appetite of the treacherous desires violence.

  • Ps 1:3
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    3 He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in its season, and whose leaf does not wither; whatever he does prospers.

  • Matt 13:8
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    8 Still other seeds fell on good soil and yielded a crop—some one hundred, some sixty, and some thirty times what was sown.