Matthew 3:8
Bear fruit worthy of repentance.
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Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance:
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Isaiah 1:16Wash, cleanse yourselves; 1 remove the evil of your deeds from my sight; 1 stop being evil; 1
Jeremiah 26:13So now, improve your ways and your practices, and listen to the voice of Yahweh your God so that he will relent concerning the disaster that he has proclaimed against you.
Matthew 21:28But what do you think? A man had two sons. He went to the first and said, 'Son, go work today in the vineyard.'
Luke 3:8Therefore, produce fruits that are worthy of repentance, and do not begin to say within yourselves, 'We have Abraham for our father,' for I tell you that God is able to raise up children for Abraham from these stones.
Acts 26:20but, to those in Damascus first, and then at Jerusalem, and throughout all the country of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, I gave them the message that that they should repent and turn to God, doing deeds worthy of repentance.
2 Corinthians 7:10For godly sorrow brings about repentance that accomplishes salvation without regret. Worldly sorrow, however, brings about 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 →