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Matthew 3:8
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Therefore produce fruit consistent with repentance.
Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance.
Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance:
Bear fruit in keeping with repentance.
"Therefore produce fruit consistent with repentance;
Do the things that show you really have changed your hearts and lives.
"So produce fruit that is consistent with repentance [demonstrating new behavior that proves a change of heart, and a conscious decision to turn away from sin];
Bring foorth therefore fruite worthy amendement of life.
"Therefore bear fruit in keeping with repentance;
Therefore bear fruit in keeping with repentance;
Produce fruit worthy of repentance.
Do something to show that you have really given up your sins.
If you have really turned from your sins to God, produce fruit that will prove it!
Produce therefore fruit worthy of repentance.
Bring forth therefore fruits which are worthy of repentance;
Do those things that will show that you have turned from your sins.
Therefore produce fruit worthy of repentance!
Therefore, bring forth fruits worthy of repentance.
Bring forth therefore fruit worthy of repentance:
Let your change of heart be seen in your works:
Therefore bring forth fruit worthy of repentance!
Produce fruit that is consistent with repentance!
Work, therefore, fruits which are suitable to repentance.
Bring forth the fruits therefore, that accord with repentance.
Bryng foorth therefore fruites meete for repentaunce.
Bring forth therefore fruit worthy of repentance:
Therefore bring forth fruit worthy of repentance!
Bring forth therefore fruit worthy of repentance:
Therefore let your lives prove your change of heart;
Therfor do ye worthi fruyte of penaunce,
Bring forth therefore fruit worthy of repentance:
Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance:
Therefore produce fruit that proves your repentance,
Therefore bear fruits worthy of repentance,
Prove by the way you live that you have repented of your sins and turned to God.
Do something to show me that your hearts are changed.
Bear fruit worthy of repentance.
Bring forth, therefore, fruit worthy of repentance;
Bring forth therefore fruit worthy of penance.
Bear fruit that befits repentance,
Brynge forth therfore the frutes belongynge to repentauce.
bear, therefore, fruits worthy of the reformation,
Bewarre, brynge forth due frutes of pennaunce.
Let your actions then show your repentance:
You gotta change the way you live your life if you want what God is offerin' folks here!
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
forth: Matthew 21:28-30, Matthew 21:32, Isaiah 1:16, Isaiah 1:17, Luke 3:8, Luke 3:10-14, Acts 26:20, Romans 2:4-7, 2 Corinthians 7:10, 2 Corinthians 7:11, 2 Peter 1:4-8
fruits: Galatians 5:22, Galatians 5:23, Ephesians 5:9, Philippians 1:11
meet: etc. or, answerable to amendment of life, Jeremiah 7:3-7, Jeremiah 26:13, Jeremiah 36:3
Reciprocal: Genesis 38:26 - And he knew 2 Chronicles 33:15 - he took Job 36:10 - commandeth Isaiah 5:7 - he looked Ezekiel 14:6 - Repent Ezekiel 18:30 - Repent Daniel 4:27 - break Jonah 3:2 - preach Jonah 3:8 - let Micah 2:7 - named Micah 6:8 - to do Haggai 1:8 - and build Zechariah 1:4 - Turn Matthew 7:13 - at Matthew 9:13 - but Matthew 12:33 - and his fruit good Matthew 13:23 - beareth Matthew 15:22 - a woman Matthew 16:1 - Sadducees Mark 6:12 - preached Acts 2:38 - Repent Acts 16:30 - brought Titus 2:12 - denying
Cross-References
The snake was the most clever of all the wild animals that the Lord God had made. The snake spoke to the woman and said, "Woman, did God really tell you that you must not eat from any tree in the garden?"
The woman answered the snake, "No, we can eat fruit from the trees in the garden.
But there is one tree we must not eat from. God told us, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden. You must not even touch that tree, or you will die.'"
The Lord God called to the man and said, "Where are you?"
The man said, "I heard you walking in the garden, and I was afraid. I was naked, so I hid."
The man said, "The woman you put here with me gave me fruit from that tree. So I ate it."
The Lord God used animal skins and made some clothes for the man and his wife. Then he put the clothes on them.
The Lord God said, "Look, the man has become like us—he knows about good and evil. And now the man might take the fruit from the tree of life. If the man eats that fruit, he will live forever."
You people heard God speaking to you from a fire, and you are still alive. Has that ever happened to anyone else? No!
But if we hear the Lord our God speak to us again, surely we will die! That terrible fire will destroy us. We don't want to die.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Bring forth therefore fruits,.... That is, if you are truly penitent, if you have a proper sense of sin, and true repentance for it, do such works as are suitable to it, and will show the genuineness of it; for
fruits meet for repentance are the same as "works meet for repentance", Acts 26:20 and as a tree is known by its fruit, so repentance is known by good works; these are the fruits and effects of repentance, and which are proofs with men of the sincerity of it. Those which follow upon evangelical repentance are such as are mentioned in 2 Corinthians 7:11. Now let it be observed, that John insisted upon repentance, and a good conversation, attesting the truth of it as necessary prerequisites to the ordinance of baptism; and so Peter first urged repentance; and then proposed baptism, Acts 2:38 from whence one should think it may be rationally and strongly concluded, that none but truly repenting sinners, and such who have given proofs that they are so, are to be admitted to this ordinance.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Bring forth therefore fruits ... - That is, the proper fruits of reformation; the proper evidence that you are sincere. Do not bring your cunning and dissimulation to this work; do not carry your hypocrisy into your professed repentance, but evince your sincerity by forsaking sin, and thus give evidence that this coming to Jordan to be baptized is not an act of dissimulation. No discourse could have been more appropriate or more cutting.
Fruits - Conduct. See Matthew 7:16-19.
Meet for repentance - Fit for repentance; appropriate to it the proper expression of repentance.
