Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
In the [same] way, every good tree produces good fruit, but a bad tree produces bad fruit.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.
Holman Bible
International Standard Version
In the same way, every good tree produces good fruit, but a rotten tree produces bad fruit.
A Conservative Version
Likewise every good tree produces good fruits, but the corrupt tree produces bad fruits.
American Standard Version
Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but the corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.
Amplified
An Understandable Version
In a similar way, every healthy tree produces wholesome fruit; but a diseased tree produces [only] bad fruit.
Anderson New Testament
So every good tree produces goodly fruit: but an unsound tree produces diseased fruit.
Bible in Basic English
Even so, every good tree gives good fruit; but the bad tree gives evil fruit.
Common New Testament
Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit.
Daniel Mace New Testament
or figs of thistles? so every good tree yields good fruit: but a corrupt tree yields bad fruit.
Darby Translation
So every good tree produces good fruits, but the worthless tree produces bad fruits.
Godbey New Testament
So every good tree produces good fruits; and a corrupt tree produces evil fruits.
Goodspeed New Testament
Just so any sound tree bears good fruit, but a poor tree bears bad fruit.
John Wesley New Testament
So every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.
Julia Smith Translation
So every good tree makes good fruits; but the rotten tree makes evil fruits.
King James 2000
Even so every good tree brings forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree brings forth evil fruit.
Modern King James verseion
Even so every good tree brings forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree brings forth evil fruit.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Even so, every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.
Moffatt New Testament
every good tree bears sound fruit, but a rotten tree bears bad fruit;
Montgomery New Testament
"No, every good tree bears good fruit, but a worthless tree bears bad fruit.
NET Bible
In the same way, every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears bad fruit.
New Heart English Bible
Even so, every good tree produces good fruit; but the corrupt tree produces evil fruit.
Noyes New Testament
So every good tree beareth good fruit; but a bad tree beareth bad fruit.
Sawyer New Testament
So every good tree bears good fruits, but a bad tree bears bad fruits;
The Emphasized Bible
So, every good tree, fine fruit, produceth, - whereas, the worthless tree, evil fruit, produceth:
Thomas Haweis New Testament
So every good tree beareth good fruits; but every bad tree in kind, produceth bad fruits.
Twentieth Century New Testament
So, too, every sound tree bears good fruit, while a worthless tree bears bad fruit.
Webster
Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.
Weymouth New Testament
Just so every good tree produces good fruit, but a poisonous tree produces bad fruit.
Williams New Testament
So any healthy tree bears good fruit and a sickly tree bears poor fruit.
World English Bible
Even so, every good tree produces good fruit; but the corrupt tree produces evil fruit.
Worrell New Testament
So every good tree bears good fruit, but the worthless tree bears evil fruit.
Worsley New Testament
so every good tree yieldeth good fruit, but a corrupt tree produces bad fruit:
Youngs Literal Translation
so every good tree doth yield good fruits, but the bad tree doth yield evil fruits.
Themes
Bearing fruit » What brings forth good fruit
Bearing fruit » What brings forth evil fruit
Botany » Laws of nature in the vegetable kingdom uniform in action
Character » Of the wicked » Corrupt
Evil » What brings forth evil fruit
Fruits » Illustrative » (bad,) of the conduct and conversation of evil men
Fruits » Illustrative » Of good works
Fruits » Divided into » Evil or bad
The goodness of the lord » What brings forth good fruit
Trees » Illustrative » (good and fruitful,) of saints
Trees » Illustrative » (producing evil fruit,) of the wicked
Topics
Interlinear
Pas
Agathos
καλός
Kalos
good, better, honest, meet, goodly,
Usage: 62
Poieo
ποιέω
Poieo
do, make, bring forth, commit, cause, work, show, bear, keep, fulfil, deal, perform, not tr, , vr do
Usage: 372
De
Word Count of 37 Translations in Matthew 7:17
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Sermon On The Mount: Recognizing False Prophets
16 You will recognize them by their fruits: they do not gather grapes from thorn bushes or figs from thistles, [do they]? 17 In the [same] way, every good tree produces good fruit, but a bad tree produces bad fruit. 18 A good tree is not able to produce bad fruit, nor a bad tree to produce good fruit.
Names
Cross References
Matthew 12:33-35
"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.
Psalm 1:3
And so, he is like a tree planted by streams of water that gives its fruit in its season; its leaf also does not wither. Therefore all that he does prospers.
Psalm 92:13-14
Planted in the house of Yahweh, they will flourish in the courts of our God.
Isaiah 5:3-5
And now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge between me and my vineyard.
Isaiah 61:3
to {give} for those in mourning in Zion, to give them a head wrap instead of ashes, [the] oil of joy instead of mourning, a garment of praise instead of a faint spirit. And {they will be called} oaks of righteousness, the planting of Yahweh, to show his glory.
Jeremiah 11:19
And I [was] like a gentle ram-lamb that is brought to slaughter, and I did not know that they planned plans against me, [saying], "Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, and let us cut him off from [the] land of [the] living, so that his name will no longer be remembered."
Jeremiah 17:8
For he will be like a tree planted by water, and to [the] stream it sends its roots, and it will not fear when heat comes, and its leaves will be luxuriant, and in [the] year of drought it will not be anxious, and it will not cease from the bearing of fruit.
Luke 13:6-9
And he told this parable: "A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came looking for fruit on it and did not find [any].
Galatians 5:22-24
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
Ephesians 5:9
(for the fruit of the light [is] in all goodness and righteousness and truth),
Philippians 1:11
having been filled [with the] fruit of righteousness which [comes] through Jesus Christ to the glory and praise of God.
Colossians 1:10
so that you may live in a manner worthy of the Lord, {to please [him] in all respects}, bearing fruit in every good deed and increasing in the knowledge of God,
James 3:17-18
But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, obedient, full of mercy and good fruits, nonjudgmental, without hypocrisy,
Jude 1:12
These are the ones feasting together without reverence, hidden reefs at your love feasts, caring for themselves, waterless clouds carried away by winds, late autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, uprooted,