Matthew 12:33

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

`Either make the tree good, and its fruit good, or make the tree bad, and its fruit bad, for from the fruit is the tree known.

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Referenced Verses

  • Luke 6:43-44 : 43 `For there is not a good tree making bad fruit, nor a bad tree making good fruit; 44 for each tree from its own fruit is known, for not from thorns do they gather figs, nor from a bramble do they crop a grape.
  • Matt 7:16-20 : 16 From their fruits ye shall know them; do `men' gather from thorns grapes? or from thistles figs? 17 so every good tree doth yield good fruits, but the bad tree doth yield evil fruits. 18 A good tree is not able to yield evil fruits, nor a bad tree to yield good fruits. 19 Every tree not yielding good fruit is cut down and is cast to fire: 20 therefore from their fruits ye shall know them.
  • Ezek 18:31 : 31 Cast from off you all your transgressions, By which ye have transgressed, And make to you a new heart, and a new spirit, And why do ye die, O house of Israel?
  • Amos 5:15 : 15 Hate evil, and love good, And set up judgment in the gate, It may be Jehovah, God of Hosts, doth pity the remnant of Joseph.
  • Luke 11:39-40 : 39 And the Lord said unto him, `Now do ye, the Pharisees, the outside of the cup and of the plate make clean, but your inward part is full of rapine and wickedness; 40 unthinking! did not He who made the outside also the inside make?
  • Jas 4:8 : 8 draw nigh to God, and He will draw nigh to you; cleanse hands, ye sinners! and purify hearts, ye two-souled!
  • John 15:4-7 : 4 remain in me, and I in you, as the branch is not able to bear fruit of itself, if it may not remain in the vine, so neither ye, if ye may not remain in me. 5 `I am the vine, ye the branches; he who is remaining in me, and I in him, this one doth bear much fruit, because apart from me ye are not able to do anything; 6 if any one may not remain in me, he was cast forth without as the branch, and was withered, and they gather them, and cast to fire, and they are burned; 7 if ye may remain in me, and my sayings in you may remain, whatever ye may wish ye shall ask, and it shall be done to you.
  • Matt 3:8-9 : 8 bear, therefore, fruits worthy of the reformation, 9 and do not think to say in yourselves, A father we have -- Abraham, for I say to you, that God is able out of these stones to raise children to Abraham, 10 and now also, the axe unto the root of the trees is laid, every tree therefore not bearing good fruit is hewn down, and to fire is cast.
  • Matt 23:26 : 26 `Blind Pharisee! cleanse first the inside of the cup and the plate, that the outside of them also may become clean.
  • Luke 3:9 : 9 and already also the axe unto the root of the trees is laid, every tree, therefore, not making good fruit is cut down, and to fire it is cast.'
  • Jas 3:12 : 12 is a fig-tree able, my brethren, olives to make? or a vine figs? so no fountain salt and sweet water `is able' to make.

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    16 From their fruits ye shall know them; do `men' gather from thorns grapes? or from thistles figs?

    17 so every good tree doth yield good fruits, but the bad tree doth yield evil fruits.

    18 A good tree is not able to yield evil fruits, nor a bad tree to yield good fruits.

    19 Every tree not yielding good fruit is cut down and is cast to fire:

    20 therefore from their fruits ye shall know them.

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    43 `For there is not a good tree making bad fruit, nor a bad tree making good fruit;

    44 for each tree from its own fruit is known, for not from thorns do they gather figs, nor from a bramble do they crop a grape.

    45 `The good man out of the good treasure of his heart doth bring forth that which `is' good; and the evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart doth bring forth that which `is' evil; for out of the abounding of the heart doth his mouth speak.

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    36 `And I say to you, that every idle word that men may speak, they shall give for it a reckoning in a day of judgment;

    37 for from thy words thou shalt be declared righteous, and from thy words thou shalt be declared unrighteous.'

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    9 and already also the axe unto the root of the trees is laid, every tree, therefore, not making good fruit is cut down, and to fire it is cast.'

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    8 bear, therefore, fruits worthy of the reformation,

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    12 The wicked hath desired the net of evil doers, And the root of the righteous giveth.

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