Matthew 7:19
Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
KJV
πᾶν δένδρον μὴ ποιοῦν καρπὸν καλὸν ἐκκόπτεται καὶ εἰς πῦρ βάλλεται.
Greek NT
Omnis arbor, quæ non facit fructum bonum, excidetur, et in ignem mittetur.
Vulgate
Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
ASV
Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit, shall be cut down, and shall be cast into the fire.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
11 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
βάλλω
ballo
verb · 125×
δένδρον
dendron
noun · 25×
εἰς
eis
preposition · 1769×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
καλός
kalos
adjective · 100×
καρπός
karpos
noun · 66×
μή
me
particle · 1033×
ποιέω
poieo
verb · 569×
πᾶς
pas
adjective · 1226×
πῦρ
pur
noun · 71×
ἐκκόπτω
ekkopto
verb · 10×
Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
By a comparison drawn from the wild olive-tree, whose quality but not whose nature is changed by grafting, he proves more important things; he points out also that man without the Spirit is not capable of bringing forth fruit, or of inheriting the kingdom of God. 1. This truth, therefore, [he declares], in order that we may not reject the engrafting of the Spirit while pamperin…
2. For with what judgment ye judge, says He, you shall be judged. Matthew 7:2 That is, it is not the other, says Christ, that you condemn, but yourself, and you are making the judgment-seat dreadful to yourself, and the account strict. As then in the forgiveness of our sins the beginnings are from us, so also in this judgment, it is by ourselves that the measures of our condemn…
Cross-references
- Dan 4:14 — He cried aloud, and said thus, Hew down the tree, and cut off his branches, shake off his leaves, and scatter his fruit: let the beasts get away from under it, and the fowls from his branches:
- Ezek 15:2 — Son of man, What is the vine tree more than any tree, or than a branch which is among the trees of the forest?
- Heb 6:8 — But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.
- Isa 5:5 — And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:
- Isa 27:11 — When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, a
- John 15:2 — Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
- John 15:6 — If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.
- Jude 1:12 — These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit,
- Luke 3:9 — And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: every tree therefore which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
- Luke 3:9 — And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: every tree therefore which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
- Luke 13:6 — He spake also this parable; A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came and sought fruit thereon, and found none.
- Luke 13:7 — Then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground?
- Mark 11:14 — And Jesus answered and said unto it, No man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever. And his disciples heard it.
- Matt 3:10 — And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
- Matt 3:10 — And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
- Matt 15:17 — Do not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?
- Titus 3:14 — And let ours also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they be not unfruitful.