A Tree and Its Fruit

33 “Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree bad[a] and its fruit bad; for a tree is known by its fruit.(A) 34 Brood of vipers! How can you speak good things when you are evil? For the mouth speaks from the overflow(B) of the heart. 35 A good man produces good things from his storeroom of good,[b] and an evil man produces evil things from his storeroom of evil.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 12:33 Or decayed; lit rotten
  2. Matthew 12:35 Other mss read from the storehouse of his heart

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