A healthy tree cannot produce bad fruit and neither can a diseased tree produce wholesome fruit.
Matthew 7:17 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition) In a similar way, every healthy tree produces wholesome fruit; but a diseased tree produces [only] bad fruit. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Even so, every healthy (sound) tree bears good fruit [worthy of admiration], but the sickly (decaying, worthless) tree bears bad (worthless) fruit. American Standard Version (1901) Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but the corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. Common English Bible In the same way, every good tree produces good fruit, and every rotten tree produces bad fruit. Catholic Public Domain Version So then, every good tree produces good fruit, and the evil tree produces evil fruit. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit, and the evil tree bringeth forth evil fruit. |
A healthy tree cannot produce bad fruit and neither can a diseased tree produce wholesome fruit.
(for the product of light consists of everything good and right and true).
having been full of qualities of righteousness, which come from Jesus Christ and produce honor and praise to God.
[We pray for you] to live a life deserving of the Lord, pleasing to Him in every way, producing fruit in every good deed and growing in the knowledge of God.
These people are like rotten spots [contaminating the food] at your love feasts, while they gorge themselves without fear [i.e., unashamed of their selfish indulgence]. [Note: This passage may mean “like selfish shepherds, looking out only for themselves,” even eating the grain set out for the animals]. They are like clouds that blow over without producing rain; [they are like] trees in the fall that do not produce any fruit and have been uprooted, [thus] being dead twice [i.e., fruitless and rootless].