Matthew 7:19

19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

Matthew 7:19 in Other Translations

King James Version (KJV)
19 Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
English Standard Version (ESV)
19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
New Living Translation (NLT)
19 So every tree that does not produce good fruit is chopped down and thrown into the fire.
American Standard Version (ASV)
19 Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
GOD'S WORD Translation (GW)
19 Any tree that fails to produce good fruit is cut down and thrown into a fire.
Holman Christian Standard Bible (CSB)
19 Every tree that doesn't produce good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
New International Reader's Version (NIRV)
19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down. It is thrown into the fire.

Matthew 7:19 Meaning and Commentary

Matthew 7:19

Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit
Every preacher and teacher that does not bring the Gospel of Christ with him, and plainly and faithfully preach it to the people, sooner or later,

is hewn down:
however he may have appeared as a tall lofty cedar, and have carried it with a high hand against Christ and his Gospel, spoke "great swelling words of vanity", and behaved with much "loftiness" and "haughtiness"; yet the time comes on, when all this is bowed and made low, "and the Lord alone is exalted": such preachers are either cut off from the churches of Christ, or hewn down by death,

and cast into the fire;
into the fire of hell; into the lake of fire and brimstone, "where the beast and false prophet shall be".

Matthew 7:19 In-Context

17 Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit.
18 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit.
19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
20 Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them.
21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

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