Matthew 3:8

New American Bible - revised edition

Produce good fruit as evidence of your repentance.

Cross References

Jeremiah 26:13

Now, therefore, reform your ways and your deeds; listen to the voice of the Lord your God, so that the Lord will have a change of heart regarding the evil he has spoken against you.

Jeremiah 36:3

Perhaps, if the house of Judah hears all the evil I have in mind to do to them, so that all of them turn from their evil way, then I can forgive their wickedness and their sin.

Matthew 21:32

When John came to you in the way of righteousness, you did not believe him; but tax collectors and prostitutes did. Yet even when you saw that, you did not later change your minds and believe him. The Parable of the Tenants.

Luke 3:8

Produce good fruits as evidence of your repentance; and do not begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father,’ for I tell you, God can raise up children to Abraham from these stones.

Acts 26:20

On the contrary, first to those in Damascus and in Jerusalem and throughout the whole country of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, I preached the need to repent and turn to God, and to do works giving evidence of repentance.

Ephesians 5:8

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

Ephesians 5:9

for light produces every kind of goodness and righteousness and truth.

Philippians 1:11

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