Matthew 3:8
Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance:
Matthew 3:8 in other translations
| BSB | Produce fruit, then, in keeping with repentance. |
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| WEB | Therefore produce fruit worthy of repentance! |
| ASV | Bring forth therefore fruit worthy of repentance: |
| YLT | bear, therefore, fruits worthy of the reformation, |
| DARBY | Produce therefore fruit worthy of repentance. |
| BBE | Let your change of heart be seen in your works: |
| Webster | Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance: |
What does Matthew 3:8 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Barnes' Notes
Fruits. Conduct. See Mt 7:16-19.
Meet for repentance, Fit for repentance; appropriate to it--the proper expression of repentance.
Albert Barnes, 1834 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Matthew 3:7-12
To make application to the souls of the hearers, is the life of preaching; so it was of John's preaching. The Pharisees laid their chief stress on outward observances, neglecting the weightier matters of the moral law, and the spiritual meaning of their legal ceremonies. Others of them were detestable hypocrites, making their pretences to holiness a cloak for iniquity. The Sadducees ran into the opposite extreme…
Matthew 3:8 in the original Greek
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Cross references for Matthew 3:8
- Luke 3:8
Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and begin 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.
- Acts 26:20
But shewed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance.
- 2 Peter 1:4-8
Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. …
- Galatians 5:22-23
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
- Ephesians 5:9
(For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)
- Philippians 1:11
Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.
- Isaiah 1:16-17
Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
- Jeremiah 36:3
It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I purpose to do unto them; that they may return every man from his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.
- Matthew 21:28-30
But 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. He answered and said, I will not: but afterward he repented, and went. And he came to the second, and said likewise. And he answered and said, I go, sir: and went not.
- Romans 2:4-7
Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance? But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God; Who will render to every man according to his deeds: To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:
- Jeremiah 26:13
Therefore now amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the Lord your God; and the Lord will repent him of the evil that he hath pronounced against you.
- Jeremiah 7:3-7
Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place. Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of the Lord, The temple of the Lord, The temple of the Lord, are these. For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour; If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt: …
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Context
- Matthew 3:7
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?
- Matthew 3:8
Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance:
- Matthew 3:9
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.
Matthew 3:8 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Haced pues frutos dignos de arrepentimiento, |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Produisez donc du fruit qui convienne à la repentance; |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Bringet nun der Buße würdige Frucht; |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Facite ergo fructum dignum pœnitentiæ. |