Matthew 12:33 Cross References - Goodspeed

³³ "You must either make the tree sound and its fruit sound, or make the tree bad and its fruit bad; a tree is judged by its fruit.

⁸ Then produce fruit that will be consistent with your professed repentance! ⁹ Do not suppose that you can say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham for our forefather,' for I tell you God can produce descendants for Abraham right out of these stones! ¹⁰ But the axe is already lying at the roots of the trees. Any tree that fails to produce good fruit is going to be cut down and thrown into the fire.

¹⁶ You can tell them by their fruit. Do people pick grapes off thorns, or figs off thistles? ¹⁷ Just so any sound tree bears good fruit, but a poor tree bears bad fruit. ¹⁸ No sound tree can bear bad fruit, and no poor tree can bear good fruit. ¹⁹ Any tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and burned. ²⁰ So you can tell them by their fruit.

²⁶ You blind Pharisee! You must first clean the inside of the cup and the dish, so that the outside may be clean too.

⁹ But the axe is already lying at the roots of the trees. Any tree that fails to produce good fruit is going to be cut down and thrown into the fire."

⁴³ For sound trees do not bear bad fruit, nor bad trees sound fruit. ⁴⁴ Every tree is known by its fruit. They do not pick figs off thorns, or gather grapes from brambles.

³⁹ But the Master said to him, "You Pharisees clean the outside of cups and dishes, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness. ⁴⁰ You fools! Did not the Creator of the outside make the inside too?

⁴ You must remain united to me and I will remain united to you. Just as no branch can bear fruit by itself unless it remains united to the vine, you cannot unless you remain united to me. ⁵ I am the vine, you are the branches. Anyone who remains united to me, with me united to him, will be very fruitful, for you cannot do anything apart from me. ⁶ Anyone who does not remain united to me is thrown away like a branch and withers up, and they gather them and throw them into the fire and burn them. ⁷ If you remain united to me and my words remain in your hearts, ask for whatever you please and you shall have it.

¹² Can a fig tree produce olives, my brothers, or a grape vine figs? A salt spring cannot give fresh water.

⁸ Approach God, and he will approach you. Wash your hands, you sinners! Make your hearts pure, you doubters!