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New American Standard Bible (1995)

Matthew 7:19

"Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Commandments;   Religion;   Righteous;   Unfruitfulness;   Wicked (People);   Scofield Reference Index - Sanctification;   The Topic Concordance - Bearing Fruit;   Evil;   Goodness;   Hell;   Prophecy and Prophets;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Trees;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Sermon on the mount;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Baptism of Fire;   Fruit;   Hell;   Jesus Christ;   Knowledge of God;   Lake of Fire;   Lord's Prayer, the;   Motives;   Romans, Theology of;   Sin;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Hutchinsonians;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Antinomianism;   False Prophet;   Fruit;   Matthew, the Gospel of;   Prophecy, Prophets;   Sermon on the Mount;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Mss;   Parable;   Text of the New Testament;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Assurance (2);   Doctrines;   Eternal Punishment;   Fig-Tree ;   Fire ;   Husbandman ;   Judging (by Men);   Law of God;   Physical ;   Redemption (2);   Sermon on the Mount;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Fire;   Fruit;  

Encyclopedias:

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

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for December 17;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Every tree that doesn’t produce good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
King James Version (1611)
Euery tree that bringeth not forth good fruit, is hewen downe, and cast into the fire.
King James Version
Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
English Standard Version
Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
New American Standard Bible
"Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
New Century Version
Every tree that does not produce good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
Amplified Bible
"Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Euery tree that bringeth not forth good fruite, is hewen downe, and cast into the fire.
Legacy Standard Bible
Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
Berean Standard Bible
Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
Contemporary English Version
Every tree that produces bad fruit will be chopped down and burned.
Complete Jewish Bible
Any tree that does not produce good fruit is cut down and thrown in the fire!
Darby Translation
Every tree not producing good fruit is cut down and cast into the fire.
Easy-to-Read Version
Every tree that does not produce good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
George Lamsa Translation
Any tree which does not bear good fruits will be cut down and cast into the fire.
Good News Translation
And any tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown in the fire.
Lexham English Bible
Every tree that does not produce good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
Literal Translation
Every tree not producing good fruit is cut down and is thrown into fire.
American Standard Version
Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
Bible in Basic English
Every tree which does not give good fruit is cut down and put in the fire.
Hebrew Names Version
Every tree that doesn't grow good fruit is cut down, and thrown into the fire.
International Standard Version
Every tree not producing good fruit will be cut down and thrown into a fire.Matthew 3:10; Luke 3:9; John 15:2,6;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
Every tree that maketh not good fruits is cut down, and falleth into the fire.
Murdock Translation
Every tree that beareth not good fruits, is cut down and consigned to the fire.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Euery tree that bryngeth not foorth good fruite, is hewen downe, and cast into the fyre.
English Revised Version
Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
World English Bible
Every tree that doesn't grow good fruit is cut down, and thrown into the fire.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit, is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
Weymouth's New Testament
Every tree which does not yield good fruit is cut down and thrown aside for burning.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Euery tre that makith not good fruyt, schal be kyt doun, and schal be cast in to the fier.
Update Bible Version
Every tree not producing good fruit is cut down, and cast into the fire.
Webster's Bible Translation
Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
New English Translation
Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
New King James Version
Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
New Living Translation
So every tree that does not produce good fruit is chopped down and thrown into the fire.
New Life Bible
Every tree that does not have good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
New Revised Standard
Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Every tree that beareth not fine fruit, is hewn down, and, into fire, is cast.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit, shall be cut down, and shall be cast into the fire.
Revised Standard Version
Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Every tree that bryngethe not forthe good frute shalbe hewe doune and cast into the fyre.
Young's Literal Translation
Every tree not yielding good fruit is cut down and is cast to fire:
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Euery tre that bryngeth not forth good frute, shalbe hewen downe, and cast into the fyre.
Mace New Testament (1729)
every tree that doth not yield good fruit, is hewn down and cast into the fire.
Simplified Cowboy Version
So every tree that can't make good beans is cut down and used for firewood.

Contextual Overview

15 "Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves. 16 "You will know them by their fruits. Grapes are not gathered from thorn bushes nor figs from thistles, are they? 17 "So every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears bad fruit. 18 "A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, nor can a bad tree produce good fruit. 19 "Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.20 "So then, you will know them by their fruits.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

bringeth: Matthew 3:10, Matthew 21:19, Matthew 21:20, Isaiah 5:5-7, Isaiah 27:11, Ezekiel 15:2-7, Luke 3:9, Luke 13:6-9, John 15:2-6, Hebrews 6:8, Jude 1:12

Reciprocal: Daniel 4:14 - Hew Matthew 15:17 - that Mark 11:14 - No Luke 13:7 - cut John 15:6 - he Titus 3:14 - that

Cross-References

Genesis 7:2
"You shall take with you of every clean animal by sevens, a male and his female; and of the animals that are not clean two, a male and his female;
Genesis 7:3
also of the birds of the sky, by sevens, male and female, to keep offspring alive on the face of all the earth.
Genesis 7:6
Now Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of water came upon the earth.
Genesis 7:9
there went into the ark to Noah by twos, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.
Job 12:15
"Behold, He restrains the waters, and they dry up; And He sends them out, and they inundate the earth.
Jeremiah 3:23
"Surely, the hills are a deception, A tumult on the mountains. Surely in the LORD our God Is the salvation of Israel.
2 Peter 3:6
through which the world at that time was destroyed, being flooded with water.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit,.... Every preacher and teacher that does not bring the Gospel of Christ with him, and plainly and faithfully preach it to the people, sooner or later,

is hewn down: however he may have appeared as a tall lofty cedar, and have carried it with a high hand against Christ and his Gospel, spoke "great swelling words of vanity", and behaved with much "loftiness" and "haughtiness"; yet the time comes on, when all this is bowed and made low, "and the Lord alone is exalted": such preachers are either cut off from the churches of Christ, or hewn down by death,

and cast into the fire; into the fire of hell; into the lake of fire and brimstone, "where the beast and false prophet shall be".

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Matthew 7:19. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit — What a terrible sentence is this against Christless pastors, and Christless hearers! Every tree that produceth not good fruit, εκκοπτεται, is to be now cut down; the act of excision is now taking place: the curse of the Lord is even now on the head and the heart of every false teacher, and impenitent hearer.


 
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