Matthew 7:18

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

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

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.