Parallel Verses

Holman Bible

In the same way, every good tree produces good fruit, but a bad tree produces bad fruit.

New American Standard Bible

So every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears bad fruit.

King James Version

Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.

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

Even so, every healthy tree bears good fruit, but the unhealthy tree bears bad fruit.

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.

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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
Even so
οὕτω 
Houto 
Usage: 146

πᾶς 
Pas 
Usage: 704

ἀγαθός 
Agathos 
καλός 
Kalos 
Usage: 70
Usage: 62

δένδρον 
Dendron 
δένδρον 
Dendron 
Usage: 12
Usage: 12

ποιέω 
Poieo 
ποιέω 
Poieo 
do, make, bring forth, commit, cause, work, show, bear, keep, fulfil, deal, perform, not tr, , vr do
do, make, bring forth, commit, cause, work, show, bear, keep, fulfil, deal, perform, not tr, , vr do
Usage: 372
Usage: 372

καρπός 
Karpos 
Usage: 25

but
δέ 
De 
but, and, now, then, also, yet, yea, so, moreover, nevertheless, for, even, , not tr
Usage: 2184

σαπρός 
Sapros 
Usage: 1

πονηρός 
Poneros 
Usage: 36

References

Hastings

Watsons

Context Readings

The Sermon On The Mount: Recognizing False Prophets

16 You’ll recognize them by their fruit. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes or figs from thistles? 17 In the same way, every good tree produces good fruit, but a bad tree produces bad fruit. 18 A good tree can’t produce bad fruit; neither can a bad tree produce good fruit.

Cross References

Matthew 12:33-35

“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.

Psalm 1:3

He is like a tree planted beside streams of water
that bears its fruit in season
and whose leaf does not wither.
Whatever he does prospers.

Psalm 92:13-14

Planted in the house of the Lord,
they thrive in the courts of our God.

Isaiah 5:3-5

So now, residents of Jerusalem
and men of Judah,
please judge between Me
and My vineyard.

Isaiah 61:3

to provide for those who mourn in Zion;
to give them a crown of beauty instead of ashes,
festive oil instead of mourning,
and splendid clothes instead of despair.
And they will be called righteous trees,
planted by the Lord
to glorify Him.

Jeremiah 11:19

for I was like a docile lamb led to slaughter.
I didn’t know that they had devised plots against me:
“Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit;
let’s cut him off from the land of the living
so that his name will no longer be remembered.”

Jeremiah 17:8

He will be like a tree planted by water:
it sends its roots out toward a stream,
it doesn’t fear when heat comes,
and its foliage remains green.
It will not worry in a year of drought
or cease producing fruit.

Luke 13:6-9

And He told this parable: “A man had a fig tree that was planted in his vineyard. He came looking for fruit on it and found none.

Galatians 5:22-24

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

Ephesians 5:9

for the fruit of the light results in all goodness, righteousness, and truth

Philippians 1:11

filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ to the glory and praise of God.

Colossians 1:10

so that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to Him, bearing fruit in every good work and growing in the knowledge of God.

James 3:17-18

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peace-loving, gentle, compliant, full of mercy and good fruits, without favoritism and hypocrisy.

Jude 1:12

These are the ones who are like dangerous reefs at your love feasts. They feast with you, nurturing only themselves without fear. They are waterless clouds carried along by winds; trees in late autumn—fruitless, twice dead, pulled out by the roots;

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