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Friday, August 29th, 2025
the Week of Proper 16 / Ordinary 21
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Chinese NCV (Simplified)

马太福音 7:20

因此你們憑著他們的果子就可以認出他們來。

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Botany;   Commandments;   Religion;   Righteous;   Thompson Chain Reference - Fruit Test;   Life;   Test, Fruit;   The Topic Concordance - Bearing Fruit;   Evil;   Goodness;   Prophecy and Prophets;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Sermon on the mount;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Fruit;   Jesus Christ;   Knowledge of God;   Lord's Prayer, the;   Motives;   Romans, Theology of;   Sin;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Conversion;   Faith;   Hutchinsonians;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Antinomianism;   False Prophet;   Fruit;   Matthew, the Gospel of;   Prophecy, Prophets;   Sermon on the Mount;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Christianity;   Heart;   Mss;   Parable;   Text of the New Testament;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Assurance (2);   Dependence;   Doctrines;   Fruit (2);   Husbandman ;   Law of God;   Physical ;   Redemption (2);   Sermon on the Mount;   Vine, Allegory of the;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - 48 To Know, Perceive, Understand;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Faith;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - James, Epistle of;   Salvation;   Sermon on the Mount, the;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Heaven;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for November 29;   Every Day Light - Devotion for December 17;  

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
所 以 , 凭 着 他 们 的 果 子 就 可 以 认 出 他 们 来 。

Contextual Overview

15 "Be careful of false prophets. They come to you looking gentle like sheep, but they are really dangerous like wolves. 16 You will know these people by what they do. Grapes don't come from thornbushes, and figs don't come from thorny weeds. 17 In the same way, every good tree produces good fruit, but a bad tree produces bad fruit. 18 A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot produce good fruit. 19 Every tree that does not produce good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 In the same way, you will know these false prophets by what they do.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Matthew 7:16, Acts 5:38

Reciprocal: Proverbs 31:31 - of the Matthew 12:50 - do Matthew 15:17 - that

Cross-References

Psalms 104:6
You covered the earth with oceans; the water was above the mountains.
Jeremiah 3:23
It was foolish to worship idols on the hills and on the mountains. Surely the salvation of Israel comes from the Lord our God.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. This is the conclusion of the whole, and a repetition of what is before said, the more to fix the rule of judgment upon their minds, and engage them to try men by their doctrines, and their doctrines by the standard of the Scriptures, and not believe every spirit; for with some care and diligence such persons may be detected, and the malignant influence of their ministry be prevented. The sum of the whole is, that ordinarily, and generally speaking, as men are, so are the doctrines they preach, and by them they may be known, and judged to be what they are. Christ here, and in the preceding verses, is speaking not of men of bad lives and conversations, who take upon them to teach others; for there is not so much reason to caution good men against these; they are easily detected, and generally discarded; but of men that put on sheep's clothing, who pretended to much holiness of life and conversation, and strictness of religion; and under that disguise delivered out the most corrupt and unwholesome doctrines; which tended greatly to depreciate him and his grace, and to do damage to the souls of men.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Matthew 7:20. Wherefore by their fruits, &c.] This truth is often repeated, because our eternal interests depend so much upon it. Not to have good fruit is to have evil: there can be no innocent sterility in the invisible tree of the heart. He that brings forth no fruit, and he that brings forth bad fruit, are both only fit for the fire.


 
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