Matthew 12:33
Trees and Their Fruit“Make 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.
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- Luke 6:43-44 : 43 “For no good tree bears bad fruit, nor again does a bad tree bear good fruit, 44 for each tree is known by its own fruit. For figs are not gathered from thorns, nor are grapes picked from brambles.
- Matt 7:16-20 : 16 You will recognize them by their fruit. Grapes are not gathered from thorns or figs from thistles, are they? 17 In the same way, every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears bad fruit. 18 A good tree is not able to bear bad fruit, nor a bad tree to bear 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 fruit.
- Ezek 18:31 : 31 Throw away all your sins you have committed and fashion yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! Why should you die, O house of Israel?
- Amos 5:15 : 15 Hate what is wrong, love what is right! Promote justice at the city gate! Maybe the LORD God of Heaven’s Armies, will have mercy on those who are left from Joseph.
- Luke 11:39-40 : 39 But the Lord said to him,“Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness. 40 You fools! Didn’t the one who made the outside make the inside as well?
- Jas 4:8 : 8 Draw near to God and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and make your hearts pure, you double-minded.
- John 15:4-7 : 4 Remain in me, and I will remain in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in me. 5 “I am the vine; you are the branches. The one who remains in me– and I in him– bears much fruit, because apart from me you can accomplish nothing. 6 If anyone does not remain in me, he is thrown out like a branch, and dries up; and such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire, and are burned up. 7 If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you want, and it will be done for you.
- Matt 3:8-9 : 8 Therefore produce fruit that proves your repentance, 9 and don’t think you can say to yourselves,‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you that God can raise up children for Abraham from these stones! 10 Even now the ax is laid at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.
- Matt 23:26 : 26 Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup, so that the outside may become clean too!
- Luke 3:9 : 9 Even now the ax is laid at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.”
- Jas 3:12 : 12 Can a fig tree produce olives, my brothers and sisters, or a vine produce figs? Neither can a salt water spring produce fresh water.
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- Matt 7:16-205 verses87%
16 You will recognize them by their fruit. Grapes are not gathered from thorns or figs from thistles, are they?
17 In the same way, every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears bad fruit.
18 A good tree is not able to bear bad fruit, nor a bad tree to bear 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 fruit.
- Luke 6:43-453 verses86%
43 “For no good tree bears bad fruit, nor again does a bad tree bear good fruit,
44 for each tree is known by its own fruit. For figs are not gathered from thorns, nor are grapes picked from brambles.
45 The good person out of the good treasury of his heart produces good, and the evil person out of his evil treasury produces evil, for his mouth speaks from what fills his heart.
- Matt 12:34-374 verses82%
34 Offspring of vipers! How are you able to say anything good, since you are evil? For the mouth speaks from what fills the heart.
35 The good person brings good things out of his good treasury, and the evil person brings evil things out of his evil treasury.
36 I tell you that on the day of judgment, people will give an account for every worthless word they speak.
37 For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”
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9 Even now the ax is laid at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.”
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10 Even now the ax is laid at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.
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9 Then if it bears fruit next year, very well, but if not, you can cut it down.’”
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8 Therefore produce fruit that proves your repentance,
- Matt 12:30-323 verses74%
30 Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters.
31 For this reason I tell you, people will be forgiven for every sin and blasphemy, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven.
32 Whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven. But whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come.
- Luke 13:6-72 verses74%
6 Warning to Israel to Bear Fruit Then Jesus told this parable:“A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came looking for fruit on it and found none.
7 So he said to the worker who tended the vineyard,‘For three years now, I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and each time I inspect it I find none. Cut it down! Why should it continue to deplete the soil?’
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14 A person will be satisfied with good from the fruit of his words, and the work of his hands will be rendered to him.
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10 And everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but the person who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.
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13 And he replied,“Every plant that my heavenly Father did not plant will be uprooted.
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30 The fruit of the righteous is like a tree producing life, and the one who wins souls is wise.
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19 After noticing a fig tree by the road he went to it, but found nothing on it except leaves. He said to it,“Never again will there be fruit from you!” And the fig tree withered at once.
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12 The wicked person has desired the stronghold of the wicked, but the root of the righteous will yield fruit.
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2 From the fruit of his speech a person eats good things, but the treacherous desire the fruit of violence.
- Matt 15:18-192 verses72%
18 But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these things defile a person.
19 For out of the heart come evil ideas, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.
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12 Can a fig tree produce olives, my brothers and sisters, or a vine produce figs? Neither can a salt water spring produce fresh water.
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2 He takes away every branch that does not bear fruit in me. He prunes every branch that bears fruit so that it will bear more fruit.
- Gal 6:7-82 verses71%
7 Do not be deceived. God will not be made a fool. For a person will reap what he sows,
8 because the person who sows to his own flesh will reap corruption from the flesh, but the one who sows to the Spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit.
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34 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
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10 From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. These things should not be so, my brothers and sisters.
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10 Tell the innocent it will go well with them, for they will be rewarded for what they have done.
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6 If anyone does not remain in me, he is thrown out like a branch, and dries up; and such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire, and are burned up.
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15 But as for the seed that landed on good soil, these are the ones who, after hearing the word, cling to it with an honest and good heart, and bear fruit with steadfast endurance.
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14 He said to it,“May no one ever eat fruit from you again.” And his disciples heard it.
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9 for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness, and truth–
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4 Remain in me, and I will remain in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in me.
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48 When it was full, they pulled it ashore, sat down, and put the good fish into containers and threw the bad away.
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33 Like a vine he will let his sour grapes fall, and like an olive tree he will shed his blossoms.
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4 Speech that heals is like a life-giving tree, but a perverse speech breaks the spirit.
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23 But if your eye is diseased, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
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9 What then will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy those tenants and give the vineyard to others.
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38 The field is the world and the good seed are the people of the kingdom. The poisonous weeds are the people of the evil one,
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23 But as for the seed sown on good soil, this is the person who hears the word and understands. He bears fruit, yielding a hundred, sixty, or thirty times what was sown.”
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29 The Parable of the Fig Tree Then he told them a parable:“Look at the fig tree and all the other trees.