Matthew 3:8 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

⁸ Therefore produce fruit  consistent with  repentance.

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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

Jeremiah 26:13

So now, correct your ways and deeds,  and obey the Lord your God so that he might relent concerning the disaster he had pronounced against you.

Jeremiah 36:3

Perhaps when the house of Judah hears about all the disaster I am planning to bring on them, each one of them will turn from his evil way. Then I will forgive their iniquity  and their sin.’

Matthew 21:32

For John came to you in the way of righteousness,   and you didn’t believe him. Tax collectors and prostitutes did believe him; but you, when you saw it, didn’t even change your minds then and believe him.

Luke 3:8

Therefore produce fruit  consistent with repentance. And don’t start saying to yourselves, “We have Abraham as our father,”  for I tell you that God is able to raise up children for Abraham from these stones.

Acts 26:20

Instead, I preached to those in Damascus first, and to those in Jerusalem and in all the region of Judea, and to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works worthy of repentance.

Ephesians 5:8

For you were once darkness, but now you are light  in the Lord. Walk as children of light   #– #

Ephesians 5:9

for the fruit of the light  consists of all goodness, righteousness, and truth   #– #

Philippians 1:11

filled with the fruit  of righteousness  that comes through Jesus Christ to the glory  and praise of God.