Matthew 3:8
Produce therefore fruit worthy of repentance.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance:
In Context
Cross References
Isaiah 1:16Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil,
Jeremiah 26:13And now, amend your ways and your doings, and hearken to the voice of Jehovah your God; and Jehovah will repent him of the evil that he hath pronounced against you.
Matthew 21:28But what think ye? A man had two children, and coming to the first he said, Child, go to-day, work in [my] vineyard.
Luke 3:8Produce therefore fruits worthy of repentance; and begin not to say in yourselves, We have Abraham for [our] father, for I say unto you that God is able of these stones to raise up children to Abraham.
Acts 26:20but have, first to those both in Damascus and Jerusalem, and to all the region of Judaea, and to the nations, announced that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance.
2 Corinthians 7:10For grief according to God works repentance to salvation, never to be regretted; but the grief of the world works death.
Matthew Henry on Matthew 3:8-13
The Preaching of John the Baptist. 7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come? 8 Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance: 9 And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham. 10 And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not… Read the whole commentary →