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Matthew 7:17
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In the same way, every good tree produces good fruit, but a bad tree produces bad fruit.
Euen so, euery good tree bringeth forth good fruit: but a corrupt tree bringeth forth euill fruit.
So, every healthy tree bears good fruit, but the diseased tree bears bad fruit.
"So every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears bad fruit.
In the same way, every good tree produces good fruit, but a bad tree produces bad fruit.
"Even so, every healthy tree bears good fruit, but the unhealthy tree bears bad fruit.
So euery good tree bringeth foorth good fruite, & a corrupt tree bringeth forth euill fruite.
"So every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears bad fruit.
Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears bad fruit.
Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit.
A good tree produces good fruit, and a bad tree produces bad fruit.
Likewise, every healthy tree produces good fruit, but a poor tree produces bad fruit.
So every good tree produces good fruits, but the worthless tree produces bad fruits.
In the same way, every good tree produces good fruit, and bad trees produce bad fruit.
So every good tree bears good fruits; but a bad tree bears bad fruits.
A healthy tree bears good fruit, but a poor tree bears bad fruit.
In the same way, every good tree produces good fruit, but a bad tree produces bad fruit.
So every good tree produces good fruits, but the corrupt tree produces evil fruits.
Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but the corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.
Even so, every good tree gives good fruit; but the bad tree gives evil fruit.
Even so, every good tree brings forth good fruit; but the corrupt tree brings forth evil fruit.
In the same way, every good tree produces good fruit, but a rotten tree produces bad fruit.Jeremiah 11:19; Matthew 12:33;">[xr]
So every good tree maketh good fruits; but an evil tree maketh evil fruits.
So every good tree beareth good fruits; but a bad tree beareth bad fruits.
Euen so, euery good tree, bryngeth foorth good fruite: But a corrupt tree, bryngeth foorth euyll fruite.
Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but the corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.
Even so, every good tree brings forth good fruit; but the corrupt tree brings forth evil fruit.
So every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.
Just so every good tree produces good fruit, but a poisonous tree produces bad fruit.
So euery good tre makith good fruytis; but an yuel tre makith yuel fruytis.
Even so every good tree produces good fruit; but the corrupt tree produces evil fruit.
Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.
In the same way, every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears bad fruit.
Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit.
A good tree produces good fruit, and a bad tree produces bad fruit.
It is true, every good tree has good fruit. Every bad tree has bad fruit.
In the same way, every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears bad fruit.
So, every good tree, fine fruit, produceth, - whereas, the worthless tree, evil fruit, produceth:
Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit, and the evil tree bringeth forth evil fruit.
So, every sound tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears evil fruit.
Euen soo every good tree bryngeth forthe good frute. But a corrupte tree bryngethe forthe evyll frute.
so every good tree doth yield good fruits, but the bad tree doth yield evil fruits.
Euen so euery good tree bryngeth forth good frute. But a corrupte tree, bryngeth forth euyl frute,
or figs of thistles? so every good tree yields good fruit: but a corrupt tree yields bad fruit.
A good tree produces beans that will feed the animals, but a bad tree produces beans that kill cattle and cowboys.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
every: Psalms 1:3, Psalms 92:13, Psalms 92:14, Isaiah 5:3-5, Isaiah 61:3, Jeremiah 11:19, Jeremiah 17:8, Luke 13:6-9, Galatians 5:22-24, Ephesians 5:9, Philippians 1:11, Colossians 1:10, James 3:17, James 3:18
but: Matthew 12:33-35, Jude 1:12
Reciprocal: Proverbs 10:16 - the fruit 1 Timothy 6:5 - men James 2:18 - and I will
Cross-References
For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.
And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Ver. 17 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit,.... As is the tree, so is its fruit; if the tree is good, it will bring forth good fruit. The tree that brings forth good fruit, is good antecedent to the fruit it produces; it is first good, and then puts forth good fruit: it is not the fruit that makes the tree good, but makes it appear to be so; but it is the goodness of the tree that makes the fruit good. As a good man does, and will do good works, but his works do not make him a good man; he is so before he performs good works, or he would never be able to do them; these make him appear to be a good man: so a good preacher, that has an experimental knowledge of the doctrines of the Gospel, will deliver out sound doctrine, who is first made so by the gifts and graces of the Spirit of God; and by searching the Scriptures, and examining his doctrines by them, he will be known and appear to be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and good doctrine; and such a good minister of the Gospel, out of the good treasure of Gospel truths put into his earthen vessel, will bring forth, from time to time, good and excellent truths, to the edification and profit of those that hear: "but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit"; if the tree is corrupt, the fruit will be corrupt; and as is the preacher, so will be his doctrines: if he is a corrupt preacher, or a man of a corrupt mind, destitute of the truth, his preaching will be such as will tend to corrupt both the principles and practices of men; for such evil men and seducers, out of the evil treasure of false doctrines, which they have received into their judgments, will bring forth, either more secretly or openly, evil tenets in their ministry, which prove of bad consequence to the souls of men.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
A corrupt tree - The word “corrupt” here does not signify, as our translation would seem to indicate, that the tree “had been” good, but had become “vitiated;” but that it was a tree of a useless character, of a nature that produced nothing beneficial.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Matthew 7:17. So every good tree — As the thorn can only produce thorns, not grapes; and the thistle, not figs, but prickles; so an unregenerate heart will produce fruits of degeneracy. As we perfectly know that a good tree will not produce bad fruit, and the bad tree will not, cannot produce good fruit, so we know that the profession of godliness, while the life is ungodly, is imposture, hypocrisy, and deceit. A man cannot be a saint and a sinner at the same time. Let us remember, that as the good tree means a good heart, and the good fruit, a holy life, and that every heart is naturally vicious; so there is none but God who can pluck up the vicious tree, create a good heart, plant, cultivate, water, and make it continually fruitful in righteousness and true holiness.
