Verse 18
Matthew 7:18
Free Bible Version
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A good tree can't produce bad fruit, and a bad tree can't produce good fruit.
Original Language Text
greek
οὐ δύναται δένδρον ἀγαθὸν καρποὺς πονηροὺς ⸀ποιεῖν, οὐδὲ δένδρον σαπρὸν καρποὺς καλοὺς ποιεῖν.
English Translation
A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, nor can a bad tree produce good fruit.
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Chapter 7 Context
1
“Don't judge others, so that you won't be judged.
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For whatever standard you use to judge others will be used to judge you, and whatever measurement yo...
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Why do you see the speck that's in your brother's eye? Don't you notice the plank that's in your own...
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How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take out that speck from your eye’ when you have a plank in...
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You're being hypocritical! First get rid of the plank that's in your own eye. Then you'll be able to...
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6
Don't give dogs what's holy. Don't throw your pearls to pigs. That way the pigs won't trample them u...
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Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for yo...
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Everyone who asks, receives; everyone who seeks, finds; and everyone who knocks has the door opened...
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Would any of you give your son a stone if he asked for bread?
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Or if he asked for fish, would you give him a snake?
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So if even you who are evil know to give good things to your children, how much more will your heave...
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Treat others the way you want them to treat you. This sums up the law and the prophets.
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Enter by the narrow entrance. For the entrance is wide, and the way is broad that leads to destructi...
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But the entrance is narrow, and the way is difficult that leads to life, and only a few find it.
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15
Watch out for false prophets who come wearing sheep's clothing, but who on the inside are vicious wo...
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You can recognize them by their fruits. Do people harvest grapes from thorn bushes, or figs from thi...
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So every good tree produces good fruit, while a bad tree produces bad fruit.
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18
A good tree can't produce bad fruit, and a bad tree can't produce good fruit.
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Not everyone who calls me ‘Lord, Lord’ will enter the kingdom of heaven—only those who do the will o...
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20
Many will say to me at the Day of Judgment, ‘Lord, Lord, didn't we prophesy in your name and drive o...
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Then I will tell them, ‘I never knew you. Leave me, you people who practice wickedness!’
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Everyone that hears the words I say, and follows them, is like a wise man who built his house on sol...
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The rain poured down, and the floods rose, and the winds blew hard against the house, but it didn't...
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Everyone that hears the words I say, and doesn't follow them, is like a foolish man who built his ho...
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The rain poured down, and the floods rose, and the winds blew hard against the house, and it fell do...
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When Yashua (Jesus) finished explaining these things, the crowds were amazed at his teaching,
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for he taught like someone with authority, and not like their religious teachers.
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