For there is no good tree that produces rotten fruit; nor again a rotten tree that produces good fruit.
Parallel translations
- KJV For a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit; neither doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
- BSB No good tree bears bad fruit, nor does a bad tree bear good fruit.
- NKJV “For a good tree does not bear bad fruit, nor does a bad tree bear good fruit.
- NASB For there is no good tree that bears bad fruit, nor, on the other hand, a bad tree that bears good fruit.
- NLT “A good tree can’t produce bad fruit, and a bad tree can’t produce good fruit.
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- Jer 2:21Yet I had planted you a noble vine, a pure and faithful seed. How then have you turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me?
- Matt 12:33“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.
- Matt 7:16–20By their fruits you will know them. Do you gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles?
- Matt 3:10“Even now the ax lies at the root of the trees. Therefore every tree that doesn’t produce good fruit is cut down, and cast into the fire.
- Ps 92:12–14The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree. He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
- Isa 5:4What 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?
- Isa 61:3to provide for 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.
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