Matthew 7:18-19
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18 A good tree can’t produce bad fruit; neither can a bad tree produce good fruit. 19 Every tree that doesn’t produce good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.(A)
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Matthew 7:23
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23 Then I will announce to them, ‘I never knew you! Depart from Me, you lawbreakers!’[a](A)[b]
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- Matthew 7:23 Lit you who work lawlessness
- Matthew 7:23 Ps 6:8
Luke 6:43-44
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A Tree and Its Fruit
43 “A good tree doesn’t produce bad fruit; on the other hand, a bad tree doesn’t produce good fruit.(A) 44 For each tree is known by its own fruit. Figs aren’t gathered from thornbushes, or grapes picked from a bramble bush.
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John 15:4-7
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4 Remain in Me, and I in you. Just as a branch is unable to produce fruit by itself unless it remains on the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in Me.(A)
5 “I am the vine;(B) you are the branches. The one who remains in Me and I in him produces much fruit,(C) because you can do nothing without Me. 6 If anyone does not remain in Me, he is thrown aside(D) like a branch and he withers. They gather them, throw them into the fire,(E) and they are burned.(F) 7 If you remain in Me and My words remain in you, ask whatever you want and it will be done for you.(G)
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