Matthew 7:18 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. ”

• Matthew 7:18 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Epilogue. Warnings and exhortations close the new Law, like the old ( Exodus 23:20 ff.). Matthew 7:13 f. The Two Gates and the Two Ways ( Luke 13:24 ). The picture is based on Jeremiah 21:8...

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• Matthew 7:18 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 1332 MEN KNOWN BY THEIR FRUITS Matthew 7:15-20 . Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ye shall know them by their fr...

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• Matthew 7:18 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit - Love to God and man is the root of the good tree; and from...

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• Matthew 7:18 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Ye shall know them by their fruits— That is, by the evil tendency of their doctrines, as well as by the immorality of their lives. Compare 1 John 4:1 . 1 Corinthians 13:3 . What follows seems to...

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• Matthew 7:18 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Obvi...

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• Matthew 7:18 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Sermon on the Mount (concluded) The connexion of thought in this chapter is less close than in the earlier part of the sermon, and the whole chapter bears the appearance of an appendix of misc...

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• Matthew 7:18 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Even so every good tree.... — The two verses state nearly the same fact, but each presents a different aspect. First it is stated as a matter of practical experience, then the general fact is refer...

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• Matthew 7:18 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  Chapter 7 The Gospel of the Kingdom ("Sermon on the Mount") - Matthew 5:1-48 ; Matthew 6:1-34 ; Matthew 7:1-29 IT may seem almost heresy to object to the time-honoured title "Sermon on the M...

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• Matthew 7:18 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Seeking Life; Testing Leaders Matthew 7:13-23 The world is full of shams. Counterfeit coins circulate; paste jewels are worn. Let us take heed against a counterfeit religion. It betrays itself...

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• Matthew 7:18 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  After thus enunciating the laws of the Kingdom, and bringing men into the realm of direct dealing with God, the King authoritatively set up the standard of judgment. No man is to be his brother's jud...

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• Matthew 7:18 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  Nothing can be more interesting than what the Lord JESUS hath here said. And no form of words can be more decisive to mark the godly man from the hypocrite. I only detain the Reader to observe, how v...

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• Matthew 7:18 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

  BEWARE! ‘Beware of false prophets.… Not every one that saith unto Me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of My Father which is in heaven.’ Matthew 7:...

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• Matthew 7:18 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit ,.... A man that is unprincipled with the grace of God, has an experimental acquaintance with the Gospel of Christ, and is guided by the Spirit of God into...

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• Matthew 7:18 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Ver. 18. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, &c. ] Heretics, then, and heterodoxes are n...

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• Matthew 7:18 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Even so As grapes are not reaped from thorns, or figs from thistles, but the fruit will always be agreeable in its nature and kind to the tree that produces it; so every good tree bringeth forth g...

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• Matthew 7:18 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  Simple honesty will understand these first five verses without difficulty. The word "judge" is used in various different ways in Scripture. Believers are told to "judge" what Paul says ( 1 Corinthian...

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• Matthew 7:18 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Sermon on the Mount.       15 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves....

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• Matthew 7:18 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  See Poole on " Matthew 7:20 " .

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• Matthew 7:18 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Exhortation to Choose the Right Way and Produce Good Fruit by Full Obedience to His Words So As To Enter Into Life and Avoid Destruction (7:13-27). We now move on to the application part of the Se...

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• Matthew 7:18 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES Matthew 7:13 . Destruction. —The word implies, not annihilation, but waste ( Matthew 26:8 ; Mark 14:4 ), perdition, i.e . the loss of all that makes existence precious. I questi...

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• Matthew 7:18 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Matthew 7:15-20 I. Christ warns us here to beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing. There is allusion here, no doubt, to the symbolical garments of the prophets, with which...

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• Matthew 7:18 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  While we are reading, let us also be adoring at the same time, for the. words of Christ have a gracious divinity about them; they are infinite; they are omnipotent. There is a kind of life in them; a...

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• Matthew 7:18 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Matthew 7:1 . Judge not, that ye be not judged. This refers to private and censorious reproaches of others. We must judge nothing before the time. It is better that ten bad men pass for innocent,...

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• Matthew 7:18 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Know them by their fruits. Utility the test of truth The two criteria on which men most chiefly rest for the guidance “of their religious opinions would here be of no avail; authority would b...

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• Matthew 7:18 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Matthew 7:1-40 (2) As anxiety about the things of this life hinders us Godwards ( Matthew 6:19-40 ), so does censoriousness manwards ( Matthew 7:1-40 ), our Lord thus tacitly...

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• Matthew 7:18 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The principle of testing false teachers and all frauds:

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• Matthew 7:18 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 John 3:10 ; 1 John 3:9 ; Galatians 5:17

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• Matthew 7:18 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  The Sermon on the Mount (Continued) Matthew 7:1-29 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. A command. God not only requests but definitely commands us, that we should not judge one another. There is probably no...

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• Matthew 7:18 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither a corrupt tree good fruit — But it is certain, the goodness or badness here mentioned respects the doctrine, rather than the personal character. F...

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