Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

Let your change of heart be seen in your works:

New American Standard Bible

Therefore bear fruit in keeping with repentance;

King James Version

Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance:

Holman Bible

Therefore produce fruit consistent with repentance.

International Standard Version

Produce fruit that is consistent with repentance!

A Conservative Version

Therefore produce fruit worthy of repentance.

American Standard Version

Bring forth therefore fruit worthy of repentance:

Amplified

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];

An Understandable Version

Demonstrate by your lives that you have [really] repented,

Anderson New Testament

Bring forth, therefore, fruit worthy of repentance:

Common New Testament

Bear fruit worthy of repentance,

Daniel Mace New Testament

Let your actions then show your repentance:

Darby Translation

Produce therefore fruit worthy of repentance.

Godbey New Testament

Therefore bring forth fruit worthy of repentance;

Goodspeed New Testament

Then produce fruit that will be consistent with your professed repentance!

John Wesley New Testament

Bring forth therefore fruit worthy of repentance:

Julia Smith Translation

Do ye therefore fruit worthy of repentance.

King James 2000

Bring forth therefore fruits befitting for repentance:

Lexham Expanded Bible

Therefore produce fruit worthy of repentance!

Modern King James verseion

Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance;

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Bring forth therefore the fruits belonging to repentance:

Moffatt New Testament

Now, produce fruit that answers to your repentance,

Montgomery New Testament

Then bring forth fruit worthy of repentance.

NET Bible

Therefore produce fruit that proves your repentance,

New Heart English Bible

Therefore bring forth fruit worthy of repentance,

Noyes New Testament

Bring forth therefore fruit worthy of repentance,

Sawyer New Testament

Bear fruit, therefore, worthy of a change of mind;

The Emphasized Bible

Bring forth, therefore, fruit worthy of repentance;

Thomas Haweis New Testament

Produce then worthy fruits of repentance:

Twentieth Century New Testament

Let your life, then, prove your repentance;

Webster

Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance:

Weymouth New Testament

Therefore let your lives prove your change of heart;

Williams New Testament

Produce, then, fruit that is consistent with the repentance you profess,

World English Bible

Therefore bring forth fruit worthy of repentance!

Worrell New Testament

Produce, therefore, fruit worthy of repentance;

Worsley New Testament

Bring forth therefore fruits becoming: penitents: and do not say within your selves,

Youngs Literal Translation

bear, therefore, fruits worthy of the reformation,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
ποιέω 
Poieo 
do, make, bring forth, commit, cause, work, show, bear, keep, fulfil, deal, perform, not tr, , vr do
Usage: 372

οὖν 
Oun 
therefore, then, so, and, now, wherefore, but, not tr,
Usage: 417

καρπός 
Karpos 
Usage: 25

ἄξιος 
Axios 
Usage: 28

References

Context Readings

John The Baptist Begins His Ministry

7 But when he saw a number of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, Offspring of snakes, at whose word are you going in flight from the wrath to come? 8 Let your change of heart be seen in your works: 9 And say not to yourselves, We have Abraham for our father; because I say to you that God is able from these stones to make children for Abraham.

Cross References

Acts 26:20

But I went about, first to those in Damascus and Jerusalem, and through all the country of Judaea, and then to the Gentiles, preaching a change of heart, so that they, being turned to God, might give, in their works, the fruits of a changed heart.

Jeremiah 36:3

It may be that the people of Judah, hearing of all the evil which it is my purpose to do to them, will be turned, every man from his evil ways; so that they may have my forgiveness for their evil-doing and their sin.

Luke 3:8

Make clear by your acts that your hearts have been changed; and do not say to yourselves, We have Abraham for our father: for I say to you that God is able from these stones to make children of Abraham.

Ephesians 5:9

(Because the fruit of the light is in all righteousness and in everything which is good and true),

Isaiah 1:16-17

Be washed, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; let there be an end of sinning;

Jeremiah 7:3-7

The Lord of armies, the God of Israel, says, Let your ways and your doings be changed for the better and I will let you go on living in this place.

Jeremiah 26:13

So now, make a change for the better in your ways and your doings, and give ear to the voice of the Lord your God; then the Lord will let himself be turned from the decision he has made against you for evil.

Matthew 21:28-30

But how does it seem to you? A man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go and do work today in the vine-garden.

Matthew 21:32

For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you had no faith in him, but the tax-farmers and the loose women had faith in him: and you, when you saw it, did not even have regret for your sins, so as to have faith in him.

Luke 3:10-14

And the people put questions to him, saying, What have we to do?

Romans 2:4-7

Or is it nothing to you that God had pity on you, waiting and putting up with you for so long, not seeing that in his pity God's desire is to give you a change of heart?

2 Corinthians 7:10-11

For the sorrow which God gives is the cause of salvation through a change of heart, in which there is no reason for grief: but the sorrow of the world is a cause of death.

Galatians 5:22-23

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, a quiet mind, kind acts, well-doing, faith,

Philippians 1:11

Being full of the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

2 Peter 1:4-8

And through this he has given us the hope of great rewards highly to be valued; so that by them we might have our part in God's being, and be made free from the destruction which is in the world through the desires of the flesh.

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