Matthew 7:18 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

¹⁸ A healthy tree cannot produce bad fruit and neither can a diseased tree produce wholesome fruit.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ A good (healthy) tree cannot bear bad (worthless) fruit, nor can a bad (diseased) tree bear excellent fruit [worthy of admiration].

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.

Common English Bible

¹⁸ A good tree can’t produce bad fruit. And a rotten tree can’t produce good fruit.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ A good tree is not able to produce evil fruit, and an evil tree is not able to produce good fruit.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁸ A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can an evil tree bring forth good fruit.

Matthew 7:18 Cross References

Matthew 7:17

In a similar way, every healthy tree produces wholesome fruit; but a diseased tree produces [only] bad fruit.

Matthew 7:19

Every tree that does not produce wholesome fruit should be chopped down and thrown into the fire.

Luke 6:43

For there is no healthy tree that produces bad fruit; nor is there a diseased tree that produces wholesome fruit.

Galatians 5:17

For what your body wants is in conflict with what the Holy Spirit wants [for you], and what the Holy Spirit wants conflicts with what your body wants, for these [two desires] are contrary to one another, so that you do not [always] do what you [really] want to.