Matthew 3:8
Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance:
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Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance:
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Isaiah 1:16Wash ye, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; cease to do evil;
Jeremiah 26:13Therefore now amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the LORD your God; and the LORD will repent of the evil that he hath pronounced against you.
Matthew 21:28But what think ye? A certain man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go, work to-day in my vineyard.
Luke 3:8Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and begin not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham for our father: for I say to you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children to Abraham.
Acts 26:20But showed first to them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the region of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance.
2 Corinthians 7:10For godly sorrow worketh penitence to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh 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 →