Matthew 7:18 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

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

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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

Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.

Matthew 7:19

Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.

Luke 6:43

For a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit; neither doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.

Galatians 5:17

For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other; so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.