Matthew 7:19
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New International Version (©2011)
Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

New Living Translation (©2007)
So every tree that does not produce good fruit is chopped down and thrown into the fire.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Every tree that doesn't produce good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Every tree that doesn't produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into a fire.

NET Bible (©2006)
Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
Every tree that does not produce good fruit is cut down and falls into the fire.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Any tree that fails to produce good fruit is cut down and thrown into a fire.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Every tree that brings not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.

American King James Version
Every tree that brings not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.

American Standard Version
Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit, shall be cut down, and shall be cast into the fire.

Darby Bible Translation
Every tree not producing good fruit is cut down and cast into the fire.

English Revised Version
Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.

Webster's Bible Translation
Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.

Weymouth New Testament
Every tree which does not yield good fruit is cut down and thrown aside for burning.

World English Bible
Every tree that doesn't grow good fruit is cut down, and thrown into the fire.

Young's Literal Translation
Every tree not yielding good fruit is cut down and is cast to fire:

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

7:15-20 Nothing so much prevents men from entering the strait gate, and becoming true followers of Christ, as the carnal, soothing, flattering doctrines of those who oppose the truth. They may be known by the drift and effects of their doctrines. Some part of their temper and conduct is contrary to the mind of Christ. Those opinions come not from God that lead to sin.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 19. - Matthew only (cf. Matthew 3:10, vide infra). Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. A parenthesis expressing the terrible fate of those the general product (ver. 16, note) of whose life is not good. Christ will warn his followers plainly against listening to them. Observe that the form of the sentence (πᾶν δένδρον μὴ ποιοῦν καρπόν, κ.τ.λ.) implies that all trees will be cut down unless there is a reason for the contrary; that the normal event (the natural result of universal sin, apart, of course, from Christ's atonement) is that men are condemned and perish. In Matthew 3:10 this general statement is applied (οϋν) to a definite time of impending judgment.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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".

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

19. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire—(See on [1232]Mt 3:10).

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A Tree and its Fruit
…18A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. 19Every tree that brings not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. 20Why by their fruits you shall know them. …

Daniel 4:14 He called in a loud voice: 'Cut down the tree and trim off its branches; strip off its leaves and scatter its fruit. Let the animals flee from under it and the birds from its branches.
Matthew 3:10 The ax is already at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.
Matthew 7:18 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit.
Luke 3:9 The ax is already at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire."
Luke 13:7 So he said to the man who took care of the vineyard, 'For three years now I've been coming to look for fruit on this fig tree and haven't found any. Cut it down! Why should it use up the soil?'
John 15:2 He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful.
John 15:6 If you do not remain in me, you are like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned.
Titus 3:14 Our people must learn to devote themselves to doing what is good, in order to provide for urgent needs and not live unproductive lives.