Matthew 7:18
It is not possible for a good tree to give bad fruit, and a bad tree will not give good fruit.
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Matthew 7:18
It is not possible for a good tree to give bad fruit, and a bad tree will not give good fruit.
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Genesis 1:11
And God said, Let grass come up on the earth, and plants producing seed, and fruit-trees giving fruit, in which is their seed, after their sort: and it was so.
Genesis 1:29
And God said, See, I have given you every plant producing seed, on the face of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit producing seed: they will be for your food:
Genesis 2:9
And out of the earth the Lord made every tree to come, delighting the eye and good for food; and in the middle of the garden, the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Genesis 2:16
And the Lord God gave the man orders, saying, You may freely take of the fruit of every tree of the garden:
Mark 4:28
The earth gives fruit by herself; first the leaf, then the head, then the full grain.
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Genesis 6:5
And the Lord saw that the sin of man was great on the earth, and that all the thoughts of his heart were evil.
1 Samuel 24:13
There is an old saying, From the evil-doer comes evil: but my hand will never be lifted up against you.
Jeremiah 13:23
Is it possible for the skin of the Ethiopian to be changed, or the markings on the leopard? Then it might be possible for you to do good, who have been trained to do evil.
Matthew 9:4
And Jesus, having knowledge of what was in their minds, said, Why are your thoughts evil?
Ephesians 2:1
And to you did he give life, when you were dead through your wrongdoing and sins,
Ephesians 4:17
This I say, then, and give witness in the Lord, that you are to go no longer in the way of the Gentiles whose minds are turned to that which has no profit,
Ephesians 4:18
Whose thoughts are dark, to whom the life of God is strange because they are without knowledge, and their hearts have been made hard;
Ephesians 4:19
Who having no more power of feeling, have given themselves up to evil passions, to do all unclean things with overmuch desire.
1 John 5:19
We are certain that we are of God, but all the world is in the power of the Evil One.
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Leviticus 14:44
Then the priest will come and see it; and if the disease in the house is increased in size, it is the leper's disease working out in the house: it is unclean.
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1 Samuel 15:13
And Samuel came to Saul; and Saul said to him, May the blessing of the Lord be with you: I have done what was ordered by the Lord.
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1 Samuel 15:14
And Samuel said, What then is this sound of the crying of sheep and the noise of oxen which comes to my ears?
Proverbs 20:11
Even a child may be judged by his doings, if his work is free from sin and if it is right.
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Job 4:8
What I have seen is that those by whom trouble has been ploughed, and evil planted, get the same for themselves.
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Psalms 1:3
He will be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, which gives its fruit at the right time, whose leaves will ever be green; and he will do well in all his undertakings.
Psalms 37:35
I have seen the evil-doer in great power, covering the earth like a great tree.
Psalms 92:15
For a sign that the Lord is upright; he is my Rock, there is no deceit in him.
Isaiah 60:21
Your people will all be upright, the land will be their heritage for ever; the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, to be for my glory.
John 15:3
You are clean, even now, through the teaching which I have given you.
2 Peter 1:8
For if you have these things in good measure, they will make you fertile and full of fruit in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Jude 1:12
These men are unseen rocks at your love-feasts, when they take part in them with you, keepers of sheep who without fear take the food of the sheep; clouds without water rushing before the wind, wasted trees without fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the roots,
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Psalms 50:14
Make an offering of praise to God; keep the agreements which you have made with the Most High;
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Psalms 50:15
Let your voice come up to me in the day of trouble; I will be your saviour, so that you may give glory to me.
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Ecclesiastes 3:16
And again, I saw under the sun, in the place of the judges, that evil was there; and in the place of righteousness, that evil was there.
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Ecclesiastes 7:1
A good name is better than oil of great price, and the day of death than the day of birth.
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Isaiah 8:20
Then say to them, Put your faith in the teaching and the witness. ...If they do not say such things. ...For him there is no dawn. ...
Mark 7:14
And turning to the people again, he said to them, Give ear to me all of you, and let my words be clear to you:
Mark 7:15
There is nothing outside the man which, going into him, is able to make him unclean: but the things which come out of the man are those which make the man unclean.
Luke 12:57
And why are you, in your hearts, unable to be judges of what is right?
Acts 17:11
Now these were more noble than the Jews of Thessalonica, for they gave serious attention to the word, searching in the holy Writings every day, to see if these things were so.
Romans 12:2
And let not your behaviour be like that of this world, but be changed and made new in mind, so that by experience you may have knowledge of the good and pleasing and complete purpose of God.
1 Corinthians 2:11
For who has knowledge of the things of a man but the spirit of the man which is in him? in the same way, no one has knowledge of the things of God but the Spirit of God.
1 Corinthians 2:14
For the natural man is not able to take in the things of the Spirit of God: for they seem foolish to him, and he is not able to have knowledge of them, because such knowledge comes only through the Spirit.
1 Corinthians 2:15
But he who has the Spirit, though judging all things, is himself judged by no one.
1 Corinthians 14:28
But if there is no one to give the sense, let him keep quiet in the church; and let his words be to himself and to God.
Philippians 1:10
So that you may give your approval to the best things; that you may be true and without wrongdoing till the day of Christ;
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Isaiah 65:20
No longer will there be there a child whose days are cut short, or an old man whose days have not come to their full measure: for the young man at his death will be a hundred years old, and he whose life is shorter than a hundred years will seem as one cursed.
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Proverbs 10:16
The work of the upright gives life: the increase of the evil-doer is a cause of sin.
Ezekiel 36:27
And I will put my spirit in you, causing you to be guided by my rules, and you will keep my orders and do them.
Acts 4:20
For it is not possible for us to keep from saying what we have seen and have knowledge of.
Acts 10:35
But in every nation, the man who has fear of him and does righteousness is pleasing to him.
Galatians 5:25
If we are living by the Spirit, by the Spirit let us be guided.
Philippians 3:9
And be seen in him, not having my righteousness which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
Titus 1:2
In the hope of eternal life, which was made certain before eternal time, by the word of God who is ever true;
Titus 2:12
Training us so that, turning away from evil and the desires of this world, we may be living wisely and uprightly in the knowledge of God in this present life;
Titus 2:13
Looking for the glad hope, the revelation of the glory of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ;
Titus 2:14
Who gave himself for us, so that he might make us free from all wrongdoing, and make for himself a people clean in heart and on fire with good works.
1 John 2:29
If you have knowledge that he is upright, it is clear to you that everyone who does righteousness is his offspring.
1 John 3:7
My little children, let no man take you out of the true way: he who does righteousness is upright, even as he is upright;
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Hosea 8:7
For they have been planting the wind, and their fruit will be the storm; his grain has no stem, it will give no meal, and if it does, a strange nation will take it.
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Malachi 3:11
And on your account I will keep back the locusts from wasting the fruits of your land; and the fruit of your vine will not be dropped on the field before its time, says the Lord of armies
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Matthew 7:7
Make a request, and it will be answered; what you are searching for you will get; give the sign, and the door will be open to you:
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Matthew 7:11
If you, then, being evil, are able to give good things to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who make requests to him?
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Matthew 12:35
The good man out of his good store gives good things; and the evil man out of his evil store gives evil things.
Luke 6:45
The good man, out of the good store of his heart, gives good things; and the evil man, out of his evil store, gives evil: for out of the full store of the heart come the words of the mouth.
Ephesians 4:29
Let no evil talk come out of your mouth, but only what is good for giving necessary teaching, and for grace to those who give ear.
James 3:9
With it we give praise to our Lord and Father; and with it we put a curse on men who are made in God's image.
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Matthew 15:17
Do you not see that whatever goes into the mouth goes on into the stomach, and is sent out as waste?
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Matthew 15:20
These are the things which make a man unclean; but to take food with unwashed hands does not make a man unclean.
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Deuteronomy 20:19
If in war a town is shut in by your armies for a long time, do not let its trees be cut down and made waste; for their fruit will be your food; are the trees of the countryside men for you to take up arms against them?
Deuteronomy 32:32
For their vine is the vine of Sodom, from the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are the grapes of evil, and the berries are bitter:
Isaiah 5:2
And after working the earth of it with a spade, he took away its stones, and put in it a very special vine; and he put up a watchtower in the middle of it, hollowing out in the rock a place for the grape-crushing; and he was hoping that it would give the best grapes, but it gave common grapes.
Isaiah 5:3
And now, you people of Jerusalem and you men of Judah, be the judges between me and my vine-garden.
Matthew 21:19
And seeing a fig-tree by the wayside, he came to it, and saw nothing on it but leaves only; and he said to it, Let there be no fruit from you from this time forward for ever. And straight away the fig-tree became dry and dead.
Luke 13:7
And he said to the gardener, See, for three years I have been looking for fruit from this tree, and I have not had any: let it be cut down; why is it taking up space?
Luke 13:8
And he said, Lord, let it be for this year, and I will have the earth turned up round it, and put animal waste on it, to make it fertile:
Luke 13:9
And if, after that, it has fruit, it is well; if not, let it be cut down.
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Matthew 3:9
And say not to yourselves, We have Abraham for our father; because I say to you that God is able from these stones to make children for Abraham.
Matthew 27:54
Now the captain and those who were with him watching Jesus, when they saw the earth-shock and the things which were done, were in great fear and said, Truly this was a son of God.
Luke 3:8
Make clear by your acts that your hearts have been changed; and do not say to yourselves, We have Abraham for our father: for I say to you that God is able from these stones to make children of Abraham.
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Luke 6:42
How will you say to your brother, Brother, let me take the grain of dust out of your eye, when you yourself do not see the bit of wood in your eye? O false one! first take the wood out of your eye and then you will see clearly to take the dust out of your brother's eye.
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Matthew 13:8
And some, falling on good earth, gave fruit, some a hundred, some sixty, some thirty times as much.
John 3:19
And this is the test by which men are judged: the light has come into the world and men have more love for the dark than for the light, because their acts are evil.
John 3:20
The light is hated by everyone whose acts are evil and he does not come to the light for fear that his acts will be seen.
John 3:21
But he whose life is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his acts have been done by the help of God.
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John 8:49
And this was the answer of Jesus: I have not an evil spirit; but I give honour to my Father and you do not give honour to me.
John 8:54
Jesus said in answer, If I take glory for myself, my glory is nothing: it is my Father who gives me glory, of whom you say that he is your God.
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John 10:2
He who goes in by the door is the keeper of the sheep.
John 10:3
The porter lets him in; and the sheep give ear to his voice; he says over the names of the sheep, and takes them out.
John 10:4
When he has got them all out, he goes before them, and the sheep go after him, for they have knowledge of his voice.
John 10:5
They will not go after another who is not their keeper, but will go from him in flight, because his voice is strange to them.
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John 14:21
He who has my laws and keeps them, he it is who has love for me: and he who has love for me will be loved by my Father, and I will have love for him and will let myself be seen clearly by him.
John 14:22
Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, How is it that you will let yourself be seen clearly by us and not by the world?
John 14:23
Jesus said to him in answer, If anyone has love for me, he will keep my words: and he will be dear to my Father; and we will come to him and make our living-place with him.
John 14:24
He who has no love for me does not keep my words; and the word which you are hearing is not my word but the Father's who sent me.
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Romans 6:2
In no way. How may we, who are dead to sin, be living in it any longer?
Revelation 19:8
And to her it was given to be clothed in delicate linen, clean and shining: for the clean linen is the righteousness of the saints.
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Romans 7:18
For I am conscious that in me, that is, in my flesh, there is nothing good: I have the mind but not the power to do what is right.
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Romans 7:19
For the good which I have a mind to do, I do not: but the evil which I have no mind to do, that I do.
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Romans 11:16
And if the first-fruit is holy, so is the mass: and if the root is holy, so are the branches.
Romans 11:17
But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, an olive-tree of the fields, were put in among them, and were given a part with them in the root by which the olive-tree is made fertile,
Romans 11:18
Do not be uplifted in pride over the branches: because it is not you who are the support of the root, but it is by the root that you are supported.
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Ephesians 5:10
Testing by experience what is well-pleasing to the Lord;
1 Thessalonians 5:21
Let all things be tested; keep to what is good;
1 John 4:1
My loved ones, do not put your faith in every spirit, but put them to the test, to see if they are from God: because a great number of false prophets have gone out into the world.
Revelation 2:2
I have knowledge of your doings, and of your hard work and long waiting, and that you will not put up with evil men, and have put to the test those who say they are Apostles and are not, and have seen that they are false;
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Deuteronomy 12:32
You are to keep with care all the words I give you, making no addition to them and taking nothing from them.
Deuteronomy 29:18
So that there may not be among you any man or woman or family or tribe whose heart is turned away from the Lord our God today, to go after other gods and give them worship; or any root among you whose fruit is poison and bitter sorrow;
Proverbs 4:23
And keep watch over your heart with all care; so you will have life.
Ephesians 5:6
Do not be turned from the right way by foolish words; for because of these things the punishment of God comes on those who do not put themselves under him.
Colossians 2:18
Let no man take your reward from you by consciously making little of himself and giving worship to angels; having his thoughts fixed on the things which he has seen, being foolishly lifted up in his natural mind,
Colossians 2:22
(Rules which are all to come to an end with their use) after the orders and teaching of men?
2 Thessalonians 2:8
And then will come the revelation of that evil one, whom the Lord Jesus will put to death with the breath of his mouth, and give to destruction by the revelation of his coming;
2 Thessalonians 2:9
Even the one whose coming is marked by the working of Satan, with all power and signs and false wonders,
2 Thessalonians 2:10
And with every deceit of wrongdoing among those whose fate is destruction; because they were quite without that love of the true faith by which they might have salvation.
Titus 1:15
To the clean in heart all things are clean: but to those who are unclean and without faith nothing is clean; they become unclean in mind and in thought.
Hebrews 3:13
But give comfort to one another every day as long as it is still Today; so that no one among you may be made hard by the deceit of sin:
Hebrews 12:15
Looking with care to see that no man among you in his behaviour comes short of the grace of God; for fear that some bitter root may come up to be a trouble to you, and that some of you may be made unclean by it;
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Romans 6:23
For the reward of sin is death; but what God freely gives is eternal life in Jesus Christ our Lord.
1 Corinthians 13:6
It takes no pleasure in wrongdoing, but has joy in what is true;
2 Thessalonians 2:11
And for this cause, God will give them up to the power of deceit and they will put their faith in what is false:
1 Timothy 6:5
Bitter talk of men who, being evil in mind and dead to what is true, take the faith to be a way of making profit.
2 Timothy 3:8
And as James and Jambres went against Moses, so do these go against what is true: men of evil minds, who, tested by faith, are seen to be false.
2 Timothy 3:13
Evil and false men will become worse and worse, using deceit and themselves overcome by deceit.
Hebrews 6:4
As for those who at one time saw the light, tasting the good things from heaven, and having their part in the Holy Spirit,
Hebrews 12:1
For this reason, as we are circled by so great a cloud of witnesses, putting off every weight, and the sin into which we come so readily, let us keep on running in the way which is marked out for us,
2 John 1:8
Keep watch over yourselves, so that you do not make our work of no effect, but may get your full reward.
2 John 1:9
Anyone who goes on and does not keep to the teaching of Christ, has not God: he who keeps to the teaching has the Father and the Son.
2 John 1:10
If anyone comes to you not having this teaching, do not take him into your house or give him words of love:
Revelation 21:8
But those who are full of fear and without faith, the unclean and takers of life, those who do the sins of the flesh, and those who make use of evil powers or who give worship to images, and all those who are false, will have their part in the sea of ever-burning fire which is the second death.
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1 Timothy 4:15
Have a care for these things; give yourself to them with all your heart, so that all may see how you go forward.
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1 Timothy 4:16
Give attention to yourself and your teaching. Go on in these things; for in doing so you will get salvation for yourself and for those who give hearing to you.
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Matthew 13:33
Another story he gave to them: The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took, and put in three measures of meal, till it was all leavened.
2 Timothy 2:17
And their words will be like poisoned wounds in the flesh: such are Hymenaeus and Philetus;
2 Timothy 2:18
Men whose ideas are all false, who say that the coming back from the dead has even now taken place, overturning the faith of some.
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James 2:17
Even so faith without works is dead.
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James 2:18
But a man may say, You have faith and I have works; let me see your faith without your works, and I will make my faith clear to you by my works.
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