Matthew 3:8 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁸ Bear fruit that befits repentance,

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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ Bring forth therefore fruit worthy of penance.

Matthew 3:8 Cross References

Jeremiah 26:13

Now therefore amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the Lord your God, and the Lord will repent of the evil which he has pronounced against you.

Jeremiah 36:3

It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I intend to do to them, so that every one may turn from his evil way, and that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.”

Matthew 21:32

For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors and the harlots believed him; and even when you saw it, you did not afterward repent and believe him.

Luke 3:8

Bear fruits that befit repentance, and do not begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father’; for I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children to Abraham.

Acts 26:20

but declared first to those at Damascus, then at Jerusalem and throughout all the country of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God and perform deeds worthy of their repentance.

Ephesians 5:8

for once you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord; walk as children of light

Ephesians 5:9

(for the fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true),

Philippians 1:11

filled with the fruits of righteousness which come through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.