Luke 6:43

World English Bible (2000)

For there is no good tree that brings forth rotten fruit; nor again a rotten tree that brings forth good fruit.

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  • Jer 2:21 : 21 Yet I had planted you a noble vine, wholly a right seed. How then have you turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me?
  • Matt 3:10 : 10 "Even now the axe lies at the root of the trees. Therefore, every tree that doesn't bring forth good fruit is cut down, and cast into the fire.
  • Matt 7:16-20 : 16 By their fruits you will know them. Do you gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles? 17 Even so, every good tree produces good fruit; but the corrupt tree produces evil fruit. 18 A good tree can't produce evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree produce good fruit. 19 Every tree that doesn't grow good fruit is cut down, and thrown into the fire. 20 Therefore, by their fruits you will know them.
  • Matt 12:33 : 33 "Either make the tree good, and its fruit good, or make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt; for the tree is known by its fruit.
  • Isa 61:3 : 3 to appoint to those who mourn in Zion, to give to them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of Yahweh, that he may be glorified.
  • Ps 92:12-14 : 12 The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree. He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon. 13 They are planted in Yahweh's house. They will flourish in our God's courts. 14 They will still bring forth fruit in old age. They will be full of sap and green,
  • Isa 5:4 : 4 What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? Why, when I looked for it to yield grapes, did it yield wild grapes?

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  • Matt 7:16-20
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    16 By their fruits you will know them. Do you gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles?

    17 Even so, every good tree produces good fruit; but the corrupt tree produces evil fruit.

    18 A good tree can't produce evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree produce good fruit.

    19 Every tree that doesn't grow good fruit is cut down, and thrown into the fire.

    20 Therefore, by their fruits you will know them.

  • Luke 6:44-45
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    44 For each tree is known by its own fruit. For people don't gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather grapes from a bramble bush.

    45 The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings out that which is good, and the evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings out that which is evil, for out of the abundance of the heart, his mouth speaks.

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

    34 You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.

    35 The good man out of his good treasure brings out good things, and the evil man out of his evil treasure brings out evil things.

  • Luke 3:9
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    9 Even now the axe also lies at the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that doesn't bring forth good fruit is cut down, and thrown into the fire."

  • Matt 3:10
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    10 "Even now the axe lies at the root of the trees. Therefore, every tree that doesn't bring forth good fruit is cut down, and cast into the fire.

  • Luke 6:41-42
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    41 Why do you see the speck of chaff that is in your brother's eye, but don't consider the beam that is in your own eye?

    42 Or how can you tell your brother, 'Brother, let me remove the speck of chaff that is in your eye,' when you yourself don't see the beam that is in your own eye? You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck of chaff that is in your brother's eye.

  • Luke 13:6-7
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    6 He spoke this parable. "A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it, and found none.

    7 He said to the vine dresser, 'Behold, these three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and found none. Cut it down. Why does it waste the soil?'

  • Jas 3:10-12
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    10 Out of the same mouth comes forth blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.

    11 Does a spring send out from the same opening fresh and bitter water?

    12 Can a fig tree, my brothers, yield olives, or a vine figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh water.

  • Luke 13:9
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    9 If it bears fruit, fine; but if not, after that, you can cut it down.'"

  • Matt 3:8
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    8 Therefore bring forth fruit worthy of repentance!

  • Gal 6:7-8
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    7 Don't be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

    8 For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

  • John 15:2
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    2 Every branch in me that doesn't bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

  • Matt 21:19
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    19 Seeing a fig tree by the road, he came to it, and found nothing on it but leaves. He said to it, "Let there be no fruit from you forever!" Immediately the fig tree withered away.

  • Matt 15:13
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    13 But he answered, "Every plant which my heavenly Father didn't plant will be uprooted.

  • John 15:4-6
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    4 Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can't 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. He who remains in me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

    6 If a man doesn't remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch, and is withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned.

  • Eph 5:9
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    9 for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,

  • Luke 8:15
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    15 That in the good ground, these are such as in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and bring forth fruit with patience.

  • Matt 7:3-6
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    3 Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but don't consider the beam that is in your own eye?

    4 Or how will you tell your brother, 'Let me remove the speck from your eye;' and behold, the beam is in your own eye?

    5 You hypocrite! First remove the beam out of your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck out of your brother's eye.

    6 "Don't give that which is holy to the dogs, neither throw your pearls before the pigs, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.

  • Heb 6:8
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    8 but if it bears thorns and thistles, it is rejected and near being cursed, whose end is to be burned.

  • Jer 17:8
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    8 For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, who spreads out its roots by the river, and shall not fear when heat comes, but its leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.

  • Mark 4:7
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    7 Others fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.

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

  • Matt 6:23
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    23 But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

  • Prov 12:12
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    12 The wicked desires the plunder of evil men, but the root of the righteous flourishes.

  • Mark 11:13-14
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    13 Seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came to see if perhaps he might find anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs.

    14 Jesus told it, "May no one ever eat fruit from you again!" and his disciples heard it.

  • Matt 15:18-19
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    18 But the things which proceed out of the mouth come out of the heart, and they defile the man.

    19 For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.

  • Ps 1:3
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    3 He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. Whatever he does shall prosper.

  • Ezek 17:8
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    8 It was planted in a good soil by many waters, that it might bring forth branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a goodly vine.

  • Mark 7:21
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    21 For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,

  • Prov 13:2
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    2 By the fruit of his lips, a man enjoys good things; but the unfaithful crave violence.

  • Prov 12:3
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    3 A man shall not be established by wickedness, but the root of the righteous shall not be moved.