Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
In the same way, every good tree produces good fruit, but a rotten 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
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.
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 will know them by their fruit. Grapes aren't gathered from thorns, or figs from thistles, are they? 17 In the same way, every good tree produces good fruit, but a rotten tree produces bad fruit. 18 A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, and a rotten tree cannot produce good fruit.
Names
Cross References
Matthew 12:33-35
"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.
Psalm 1:3
He will be like a tree planted by streams of water, yielding its fruit in its season, and whose leaf does not wither. He will prosper in everything he does.
Psalm 92:13-14
Planted in the LORD's Temple, they will flourish in the courtyard of our God.
Isaiah 5:3-5
"So now, you inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge, won't you please, between me and my vineyard.
Isaiah 61:3
to provide for those who grieve in Zion to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, a mantle of praise instead of a spirit of despair." "Then people will call them "Oaks of Righteousness", "The Planting of the LORD", in order to display his splendor.
Jeremiah 11:19
I was like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter. I didn't know that they had devised schemes against me. They told themselves, "Let's destroy the tree with its fruit. Let's eliminate him from the land of the living, so his name won't be remembered again."
Jeremiah 17:8
He will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by a stream. He won't fear when the heat comes, and his leaves will be green. In a year of drought he won't be concerned, nor will he stop producing fruit."
Luke 13:6-9
Then Jesus told them this parable: "A man had a fig tree that had been planted in his vineyard. He went to look for fruit on it but didn't 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 that the light produces consists of every form of goodness, righteousness, and truth.
Philippians 1:11
having been filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus the Messiah so that God will be glorified and praised.
Colossians 1:10
so that you might live in a manner worthy of the Lord and be fully pleasing to him as you bear fruit while doing all kinds of good things and growing in the full knowledge of God.
James 3:17-18
However, the wisdom that comes from above is first of all pure, then peace-loving, gentle, willing to yield, full of compassion and good deeds, and without a trace of partiality or hypocrisy.
Jude 1:12
These people are stains on your love feasts. They feast with you without any sense of awe. They are shepherds who care only for themselves. They are waterless clouds blown about by the winds. They are autumn trees that are fruitless, totally dead, and uprooted.