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John Says To Produce Fruit Worthy of Repentance, Because The Chaff Will Be Burned

But having seen many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to[a] his baptism, he said to them, “Brood of vipers— who showed[b] you to flee from the coming wrath? Therefore produce fruit worthy of repentance. And do not think that you may say within[c] yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father’. For I say to you that God is able to raise-up children for Abraham from these stones!

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 3:7 Or, upon, for.
  2. Matthew 3:7 Or, indicated to, warned.
  3. Matthew 3:9 Or, among.

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to where he was baptizing, he said to them: “You brood of vipers!(A) Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?(B) Produce fruit in keeping with repentance.(C) And do not think you can say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’(D) I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham.

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