Matthew 12:33-34

A Tree Is Known by Its Fruit

33 ¹“Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree bad and its fruit bad, ²for the tree is known by its fruit.

34 ³You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, ⁴when you are evil? ⁵For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

Cross References

• 1. 12:33 ch. 7:16-20
• 2. 12:33 Luke 6:43, 44
• 3. 12:34 ch. 3:7; 23:33
• 4. 12:34 ch. 7:11
• 5. 12:34 ch. 15:18, 19; Luke 6:45; [ch. 13:52; Eph. 4:29]