Bible Verses about “bearing bad fruit”
The Bible contains 41 verses about bearing bad fruit across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told [you] in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.”
“Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are [these]; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,”
“Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,”
“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,”
“Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.”
“‹Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.›”
“¶ ‹Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.›”
“‹If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.›”
“‹Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?›”
“‹Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.›”
“‹Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.›”
“‹This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.›”
“‹A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither› [can] ‹a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.›”
“‹Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.›”
“‹Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and› [that] ‹your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.›”
“‹I am the vine, ye› [are] ‹the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.›”
“‹If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.›”
“¶ ‹If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before› [it hated] ‹you.›”
“‹Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.›”
“‹Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.›”
“‹Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.›”
“‹Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.›”
“‹These things I command you, that ye love one another.›”
“‹Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.›”
“‹Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every› [branch] ‹that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.›”
“¶ ‹I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.›”
“‹Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.›”
“‹If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast› [them] ‹into the fire, and they are burned.›”
“¶ ‹As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.›”
“‹But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me.›”
“¶ ‹But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father,› [even] ‹the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:›”
“‹If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloke for their sin.›”
“‹He that hateth me hateth my Father also.›”
“‹These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and› [that] ‹your joy might be full.›”
“‹If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.›”
“‹If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.›”
“‹But› [this cometh to pass], ‹that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.›”
“‹And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.›”
“‹A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.›”
“‹For a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit; neither doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.›”
“‹For every tree is known by his own fruit. For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes.›”