Matthew 12:33

Webster's Bible (1833)

"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.

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  • Luke 6:43-44 : 43 For there is no good tree that brings forth rotten fruit; nor again a rotten tree that brings forth good fruit. 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.
  • 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.
  • Ezek 18:31 : 31 Cast away from you all your transgressions, in which you have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will you die, house of Israel?
  • Amos 5:15 : 15 Hate evil, love good, And establish justice in the courts. It may be that Yahweh, the God of hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph."
  • Luke 11:39-40 : 39 The Lord said to him, "Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but your inward part is full of extortion and wickedness. 40 You foolish ones, didn't he who made the outside make the inside also?
  • Jas 4:8 : 8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
  • John 15:4-7 : 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. 7 If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.
  • Matt 3:8-9 : 8 Therefore bring forth fruit worthy of repentance! 9 Don't think to yourselves, 'We have Abraham for our father,' for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones. 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 23:26 : 26 You blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and of the platter, that the outside of it may become clean also.
  • Luke 3:9 : 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."
  • Jas 3:12 : 12 Can a fig tree, my brothers, yield olives, or a vine figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh water.

Similar Verses (AI)

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

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

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

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

    20Therefore, by their fruits you will know them.

  • Luke 6:43-45
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    43For there is no good tree that brings forth rotten fruit; nor again a rotten tree that brings forth good fruit.

    44For 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.

    45The 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 12:34-37
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    34You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.

    35The good man out of his good treasure brings out good things, and the evil man out of his evil treasure{TR adds "of the heart"} brings out evil things.

    36I tell you that every idle word that men speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment.

    37For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned."

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

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

  • Matt 12:30-32
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    30"He who is not with me is against me, and he who doesn't gather with me, scatters.

    31Therefore I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven men.

    32Whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven him, neither in this age, nor in that which is to come.

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

    7He 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?'

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    14A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth. The work of a man's hands shall be rewarded to him.

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    10Everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but those who blaspheme against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.

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

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

  • Matt 21:19
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    19Seeing 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    8For 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.

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    34For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

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    10Out of the same mouth comes forth blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.

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    10Tell the righteous "Good!" For they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.

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    6If 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.

  • Luke 8:15
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    14Jesus told it, "May no one ever eat fruit from you again!" and his disciples heard it.

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

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    4Remain 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.

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    48which, when it was filled, they drew up on the beach. They sat down, and gathered the good into containers, but the bad they threw away.

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    33He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, And shall cast off his flower as the olive tree.

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    4A gentle tongue is a tree of life, But deceit in it crushes the spirit.

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    23But 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!

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    9What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the farmers, and will give the vineyard to others.

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    38the field is the world; and the good seed, these are the children of the Kingdom; and the darnel are the children of the evil one.

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    23What was sown on the good ground, this is he who hears the word, and understands it, who most assuredly bears fruit, and brings forth, some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty."

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    29He told them a parable. "See the fig tree, and all the trees.