What kind of a tree? A rotten tree? A diseased tree that brings forth diseased fruit? Not at all: “He’ll be like a tree that is planted by the rivers of water that brings forth its fruit in its season.” He’ll be a fruit-bearing tree, “whose leaf also shall not wither, and whatever he …

"Make a tree good, and then its fruit will be good. Or make a tree rotten, and then its fruit will be rotten. A person can recognize a tree by its fruit. "To have good fruit you must have a healthy tree; if you have a poor tree, you will have bad fruit. A tree is known by the kind of fruit it bears.

The good tree of a Christ-like life cannot bring forth the "corrupt fruit" (better, perhaps, rotten fruit) of censorious judgment; the rotten tree of hypocrisy cannot bring forth the "good fruit "of the power to reform and purify the lives of others.

“Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree bad and its fruit bad; for the tree is known by its fruit. I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing.

“Make a tree good, and then its fruit will be good. Or make a tree rotten, and then its fruit will be rotten. A person can recognize a tree by its fruit. “To have good fruit you must have a healthy tree; if you have a poor tree, you will have bad fruit. A tree is known by the kind of fruit it bears.

A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, and a rotten tree cannot produce good fruit. Good News Translation A healthy tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a poor tree cannot bear good fruit.

“A good tree does not bear rotten fruit, nor does a rotten tree bear good fruit. For every tree is known by its own fruit. For people do not pick figs from thornbushes, nor do they gather grapes from ...

Jesus employs the metaphor of a tree and its fruit to illustrate the inseparable connection between character and actions. "For there is no good tree that brings forth rotten fruit, nor again a rotten tree that brings forth good fruit."

A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, nor can a rotten tree produce good fruit. Every tree that does not produce good fruit is chopped down and thrown into the fire. So then, you will recognize them by their fruit. “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord!’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven.

Matthew 12:33 “You must determine if a tree is good or rotten. You can recognize good trees by their delicious fruit. But if you find rotten fruit, you can be certain that the tree is rotten. The fruit defines the | The Passion Translation (TPT) | Download The Bible App Now. “You must determine if a tree is good or rotten.