Parallel Verses
Williams New Testament
"You must either make the tree healthy and its fruits healthy or make the tree sickly and its fruits sickly, for a tree is judged by its fruit.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit.
Holman Bible
International Standard Version
"Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree rotten and its fruit rotten, because a tree is known by its fruit.
A Conservative Version
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.
American Standard Version
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.
Amplified
An Understandable Version
Either be a healthy tree and produce wholesome fruit, or be a diseased tree and produce rotten fruit, for [the quality of] a tree will be recognized by [the quality of] its fruit.
Anderson New Testament
Either make the tree good, and its fruit good; or make the tree unsound, and its fruit unsound. For by the fruit the tree is known.
Bible in Basic English
Make the tree good, and its fruit good; or make the tree bad, and its fruit bad; for by its fruit you will get knowledge of the tree.
Common New Testament
"Either make the tree good, and its fruit good; or make the tree bad, and its fruit bad; for a tree is known by its fruit.
Daniel Mace New Testament
Either allow the tree to be good, and its fruit good; or else say the tree is corrupt, and its fruit corrrupt: for a tree is distinguished by its fruit.
Darby Translation
Either make the tree good, and its fruit good; or make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt. For from the fruit the tree is known.
Godbey New Testament
Either make the tree good, and its fruit good; or make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by the fruit.
Goodspeed New Testament
"You must either make the tree sound and its fruit sound, or make the tree bad and its fruit bad; a tree is judged by its fruit.
John Wesley New Testament
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.
Julia Smith Translation
Either make the tree good, and its fruit good; or make the tree rotten, and its fruit rotten; for the tree is known by its fruit.
King James 2000
Either make the tree good, and its fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by its fruit.
Lexham Expanded Bible
"Either make the tree good and its fruit [is] good, or make the tree bad and its fruit [is] bad, for the tree is known by its fruit.
Modern King James verseion
Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or else make the tree corrupt and its fruit corrupt; for the tree is known by its fruit.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Either make the tree good, and his fruit good also, or else make the tree evil, and his fruit evil also. For the tree is known by his fruit.
Moffatt New Testament
Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree rotten and its fruit rotten; for the tree is known by its fruit.
Montgomery New Testament
"Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree corrupt and its fruit corrupt; for by its fruit the tree is known.
NET Bible
"Make a tree good and its fruit will be good, or make a tree bad and its fruit will be bad, for a tree is known by its fruit.
New Heart English Bible
"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.
Noyes New Testament
Either say that the tree is good, and its fruit good; or say that the tree is bad, and its fruit bad; for the tree is known by its fruit. Brood of vipers!
Sawyer New Testament
Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree bad, and its fruit bad; for a tree is known by its fruit.
The Emphasized Bible
Either make the tree good, and its fruit good, or make the tree worthless, and its fruit worthless; for, from the fruit, the tree is known.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Either make the tree good, and its fruit good; or make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by the fruit.
Twentieth Century New Testament
You must assume either that both tree and fruit are good, or that both tree and fruit are worthless; since it is by it's fruits that a tree is known.
Webster
Either make the tree good, and its fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by its fruit.
Weymouth New Testament
"Either grant the tree to be wholesome and its fruit wholesome, or the tree poisonous and its fruit poisonous; for the tree is known by its fruit.
World English Bible
"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.
Worrell New Testament
Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree worthless and its fruit worthless; for from the fruit the tree is known.
Worsley New Testament
Either allow the tree to be good, and it's fruit good; or shew the tree to be corrupt, and it's fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by it's fruit.
Youngs Literal Translation
'Either make the tree good, and its fruit good, or make the tree bad, and its fruit bad, for from the fruit is the tree known.
Themes
Bearing fruit » Everything being known by the fruit it bears
Fruits » Illustrative » (bad,) of the conduct and conversation of evil men
Jesus Christ » Miracles of » Heals a demoniac
Jesus Christ » History of » Heals a demoniac, and denounces the scribes and pharisees (in galilee)
Miracles » Of jesus, in chronological order » Heals a demoniac
Topics
Interlinear
Poieo
ποιέω
Poieo
do, make, bring forth, commit, cause, work, show, bear, keep, fulfil, deal, perform, not tr, , vr do
Usage: 372
Kalos
καλός
Kalos
Usage: 62
and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0
Usage: 0
Word Count of 37 Translations in Matthew 12:33
Verse Info
Context Readings
Good Trees And Good Fruit Or Bad Trees And Bad Fruit
32 And whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven for it, but whoever speaks abusively against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven for it, either in this world or in the world to come. 33 "You must either make the tree healthy and its fruits healthy or make the tree sickly and its fruits sickly, for a tree is judged by its fruit. 34 You brood of vipers! How can you, wicked as you are, say anything that is good? For the mouth talks about the things that fill the heart.
Cross References
Luke 6:43-44
"For there never is a healthy tree that bears poor fruit, nor a sickly tree that bears good fruit.
Matthew 7:16-20
You must recognize them by their fruits. People do not pick grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles, do they?
John 15:4-7
You must remain in union with me and I will remain in union with you. Just as no branch by itself can bear fruit unless it remains united to the vine, so you cannot unless you remain in union with me.
Matthew 3:8-10
Produce, then, fruit that is consistent with the repentance you profess,
Matthew 23:26
You blind Pharisees! You must first clean the inside of the cup and the dish, so that the outside may be clean too.
Luke 3:9
Now the axe is already lying at the roots of the trees. Every tree, then, that fails to bear good fruit is to be cut down and thrown into the fire."
Luke 11:39-40
But the Lord said to him, "Now you Pharisees have the habit of cleaning the outside of your cups and dishes, but inside you yourselves are full of greed and wickedness.
James 3:12
A fig tree, my brothers, cannot bear olives, or a grape-vine figs, can it? And a salt spring cannot furnish fresh water.
James 4:8
Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Get your hands clean, you sinners. Get your hearts purified, you double-minded.