Matthew 12:33

Jesus teaches that a tree is known by its fruit, so the character of a thing shows in what it produces.

Cross-references · 11

• Luke 6:43–44For there is no good tree that produces rotten fruit; nor again a rotten tree that produces good fruit.
• Matt 7:16–20By their fruits you will know them. Do you gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles?
• Jas 4:8Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
• John 15:4–7Remain 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.
• Matt 3:8–10Therefore produce fruit worthy of repentance!
• Luke 11:39–40The 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.
• Amos 5:15Hate evil, love good, and establish justice in the courts. It may be that Yahweh, the God of Armies, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”
• Luke 3:9Even now the ax also lies at the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that doesn’t produce good fruit is cut down, and thrown into the fire.”
• Ezek 18:31Cast away from you all your transgressions, in which you have transgressed; and make yourself a new heart and a new spirit: for why will you die, house of Israel?
• Jas 3:12Can a fig tree, my brothers, yield olives, or a vine figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh water.
• Matt 23:26You blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and of the platter, that its outside may become clean also.

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