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Matthew 7:18
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A good tree can’t produce bad fruit; neither can a bad tree produce good fruit.
A good tree cannot bring forth euil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
A healthy tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a diseased tree bear good fruit.
"A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit.
A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot produce good fruit.
A good tree can not bring forth euil fruite: neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruite.
"A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, nor can a bad tree produce good fruit.
A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit.
A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit.
A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot produce good fruit.
A healthy tree cannot bear bad fruit, or a poor tree good fruit.
A good tree cannot produce bad fruits, nor a worthless tree produce good fruits.
A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot produce good fruit.
A good tree cannot bear bad fruits, neither can a bad tree bear good fruits.
A healthy tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a poor tree cannot bear good fruit.
A good tree is not able to produce bad fruit, nor a bad tree to produce good fruit.
A good tree cannot produce evil fruits, nor a corrupt tree produce good fruits.
A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
It is not possible for a good tree to give bad fruit, and a bad tree will not give good fruit.
A good tree can't bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, and a rotten tree cannot produce good fruit.
A good tree cannot make evil fruits, nor an evil tree make good fruits.
A good tree cannot bear bad fruits; nor can a bad tree bear good fruits.
A good tree, can not bryng foorth bad fruite: neither can a bad tree, bryng foorth good fruite.
A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
A good tree can't bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor a poisonous tree good fruit.
A good tre may not make yuel fruytis, nethir an yuel tre make good fruytis.
A good tree is not able to produce evil fruit, neither is a corrupt tree [able] to produce good fruit.
A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither [can] a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
A good tree is not able to bear bad fruit, nor a bad tree to bear good fruit.
A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit.
A good tree can't produce bad fruit, and a bad tree can't produce good fruit.
A good tree cannot have bad fruit. A bad tree cannot have good fruit.
A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit.
It is, impossible, for a, good tree, to be bearing, evil fruit, neither doth, a worthless tree, produce, fine fruit.
A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can an evil tree bring forth good fruit.
A sound tree cannot bear evil fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit.
A good tree canot brynge forthe bad frute: nor yet a bad tree can bringe forthe good frute.
A good tree is not able to yield evil fruits, nor a bad tree to yield good fruits.
A good tree can not bryng forth bad frute: nother can a rotten tre bringe forth good frute.
a good tree cannot produce bad fruit: neither can a corrupt tree produce good fruit.
A good tree can't make bad beans and a bad tree can't make good beans.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
cannot: Galatians 5:17, 1 John 3:9, 1 John 3:10
Reciprocal: Proverbs 10:16 - the fruit
Cross-References
The waters returned and covered the chariots and the charioteers, and all the army of Pharaoh that had gone into the sea after them; not even one of them survived.
Men who were snatched away before their time, Whose foundations were poured out like a river?
Do not let the floodwater overwhelm me, Nor the deep waters swallow me up, Nor the pit [of Sheol] shut its mouth over me.
There the ships [of the sea] sail, And Leviathan [the sea monster], which You have formed to play there.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit,.... A man that is unprincipled with the grace of God, has an experimental acquaintance with the Gospel of Christ, and is guided by the Spirit of God into all truth, as it is in Jesus, cannot knowingly deliver, maintain, and abide by any doctrine that is contrary to the glory of God's grace, and the person of Christ, the work of the Spirit, the fundamental doctrines of the Bible; or what is repugnant to the experiences of God's people, and prejudicial to their souls.
Neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. A corrupt preacher, one destitute of the truth of the Gospel, reprobate concerning the faith, who never had any experience of the doctrines of grace, and denies them in the theory of them, cannot, consistent with himself, and his own principles, deliver, or preach good doctrine; or that which tends to produce any good fruit, either in the experience or lives of men. It is true, a corrupt man, that is, an unregenerate man, may preach sound doctrine, it being what he believes, though he has no experience of it: but then this man is not a corrupt tree, that is, a corrupt preacher, though a corrupt man. As our Lord means by "a good tree", not a good man, barely, or one that is made so by the grace of God; but a good minister, one that is furnished by the Spirit of God, and is well instructed in the kingdom of heaven: so by "a corrupt tree" he does not mean a corrupt man, a man that is in a state of nature, habitually and practically evil; but a corrupt preacher, a false prophet or teacher, that has sucked in corrupt principles, and has nothing else in him, and therefore can bring forth no other.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Matthew 7:18. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit — Love to God and man is the root of the good tree; and from this principle all its fruit is found. To teach, as some have done, that a state of salvation may be consistent with the greatest crimes, (such as murder and adultery in David,) or that the righteous necessarily sin in all their best works, is really to make the good tree bring forth bad fruit, and to give the lie to the Author of eternal truth.
