Matthew 7:17

Which verses does Matthew 7:17 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

1. Matthew 12:33–3522 votes

   Make a tree good and its fruit will be good, or make a tree bad and its fruit will be bad, for a tree is known by its fruit. You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks. …

2. Galatians 5:22–2419 votes

   But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law. …

3. Ephesians 5:917 votes

   for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness, and truth.

4. Psalm 1:313 votes

   He is like a tree planted by streams of water, yielding its fruit in season, whose leaf does not wither, and who prospers in all he does.

5. Psalm 92:13–1412 votes

   Planted in the house of the LORD, they will flourish in the courts of our God. In old age they will still bear fruit; healthy and green they will remain,

6. Colossians 1:1012 votes

   so that you may walk in a manner worthy of the Lord and may please Him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God,

7. Jeremiah 17:811 votes

   He is like a tree planted by the waters that sends out its roots toward the stream. It does not fear when the heat comes, and its leaves are always green. It does not worry in a year of drought, nor does it cease to produce fruit.

8. Luke 13:6–911 votes

   Then Jesus told this parable: “A man had a fig tree that was planted in his vineyard. He went to look for fruit on it but did not find any. So he said to the keeper of the vineyard, ‘Look, for the past three years I have come to search for fruit on this fig tree and haven’t found any. Therefore cut it down! Why should it use up the soil?’ …

9. James 3:17–1810 votes

   But the wisdom from above is first of all pure, then peace-loving, gentle, accommodating, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial, and sincere. Peacemakers who sow in peace reap the fruit of righteousness.

10. Jeremiah 11:198 votes

    For I was like a gentle lamb led to slaughter; I did not know that they had plotted against me: “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit; let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be remembered no more.”

11. Philippians 1:118 votes
12. Isaiah 61:37 votes
13. Jude 1:126 votes

    These men are hidden reefs in your love feasts, shamelessly feasting with you but shepherding only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried along by the wind; fruitless trees in autumn, twice dead after being uprooted.

14. Isaiah 5:3–54 votes

Which verses point to Matthew 7:17?

The 10 strongest of 16.

• Galatians 5:22 30
• Matthew 12:33 23
• Luke 6:43 16
• Isaiah 61:3 14
• 1 Thessalonians 5:21 13
• James 3:12 10
• Genesis 1:11 7
• 1 Samuel 24:13 6
• 1 Timothy 6:5 5
• James 2:18 4