Matthew 7:17 Cross References - WPNT

¹⁷ Just so, every good tree produces good fruits, but the rotten tree produces evil fruits.

³³ “Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree rotten and its fruit rotten; for the tree is known by the fruit. ³⁴ Brood of vipers! How can you, being malignant, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. ³⁵ The good man out of the good reservoir brings forth good things, and the malignant man out of the malignant reservoir brings forth malignant things.

⁶ Then He told this parable: “A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came looking for fruit on it and found none. ⁷ So he said to the gardener: ‘Look, for three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree and haven’t found any. Cut it down; just why must it waste the soil?’ ⁸ But in answer he said to him, ‘Sir, let it be this year also, until I dig around it and apply fertilizer, ⁹ in case it produces fruit—but if not, then cut it down’.”

²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, ²³ gentleness, self-control—against such things there is no law. ²⁴ Further, those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

⁹ (for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth),

¹¹ having been filled with the fruits of righteousness that are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

¹⁰ in order for you to walk worthily of the Lord, pleasing Him in every way, being fruitful in every good work and growing into the real knowledge of God;

¹⁷ In contrast, the wisdom from Above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, compliant, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy. ¹⁸ Now the fruit of righteousness is planted in peace by those making peace.

¹² These men are hidden reefs at your love feasts, joining the feast without fear, caring only for themselves; they are clouds without rain, carried along by winds; they are late autumn trees without fruit, twice dead (having been uprooted);