Parallel Verses
Goodspeed New Testament
Just so any sound tree bears good fruit, but a poor tree bears 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.
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.
Lexham Expanded Bible
In the [same] way, every good tree produces good fruit, but a bad tree produces bad 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 can tell them by their fruit. Do people pick grapes off thorns, or figs off thistles? 17 Just so any sound tree bears good fruit, but a poor tree bears bad fruit. 18 No sound tree can bear bad fruit, and no poor tree can bear good fruit.
Names
Cross References
Matthew 12:33-35
"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.
Luke 13:6-9
He used this figure: "A man had a fig tree growing in his garden, and he went to look for fruit on it, and could not find any.
Galatians 5:22-24
But what the Spirit produces is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
Ephesians 5:9
for light leads to perfect goodness, uprightness, and truth;
Philippians 1:11
with your lives filled with the fruits which uprightness produces through Jesus Christ, to the honor and praise of God.
Colossians 1:10
so that the lives you live may be worthy of your Master and wholly pleasing to him, and you may be fruitful in all kinds of good deeds, and may grow into fuller knowledge of God.
James 3:17-18
The wisdom that is from above is first of all pure, then peaceable, considerate, willing to yield, full of compassion and good deeds, whole-hearted, straightforward.
Jude 1:12
They are stains on your religious meals, where they carouse together, boldly attending to no one but themselves; rainless clouds driven before the wind; leafless trees without fruit, doubly dead, and uprooted;