Matthew 3:8 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

⁸ Demonstrate by your lives that you have [really] repented,

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ Bring forth fruit that is consistent with repentance [let your lives prove your change of heart];

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ Bring forth therefore fruit worthy of repentance:

Common English Bible

⁸ Produce fruit that shows you have changed your hearts and lives.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ Therefore, produce fruit worthy of repentance.

Matthew 3:8 Cross References

Luke 3:8

Demonstrate by your lives that you have [really] repented, and quit saying to yourselves, ‘We claim Abraham as our forefather,’ because I tell you, God is able to make Abraham’s children out of these stones.

Acts 26:20

but, [instead] declared to the people of Damascus first, [then] to the people of Jerusalem, and [finally to those] throughout all of the district of Judea, as well as to the Gentiles [everywhere] that they should repent [i.e., change their hearts and lives] and turn to God, doing deeds which demonstrate their repentance.

Philippians 1:11

having been full of qualities of righteousness, which come from Jesus Christ and produce honor and praise to God.

Ephesians 5:9

(for the product of light consists of everything good and right and true).

Matthew 21:32

For John came to show you the way to be right with God, but you would not believe his message. Yet the tax collectors and prostitutes believed it, and when you saw this, even then you did not change your minds so as to believe his message.

Ephesians 5:8

for you people were once darkness [i.e., when living in sin], but now you are light in [fellowship with] the Lord. [So], live like people who belong to light [i.e., who live godly lives],