Matthew 7:17

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

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

Cross References

Ephesians 5:9

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

Colossians 1:10

[We pray for you] to live a life deserving of the Lord, pleasing to Him in every way, producing fruit in every good deed and growing in the knowledge of God.

Jude 1:12

These people are like rotten spots [contaminating the food] at your love feasts, while they gorge themselves without fear [i.e., unashamed of their selfish indulgence]. [Note: This passage may mean “like selfish shepherds, looking out only for themselves,” even eating the grain set out for the animals]. They are like clouds that blow over without producing rain; [they are like] trees in the fall that do not produce any fruit and have been uprooted, [thus] being dead twice [i.e., fruitless and rootless].

Philippians 1:11

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

Matthew 7:18

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