Matthew 7:18
Good News Translation
A healthy tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a poor tree cannot bear good fruit.

New Revised Standard Version
A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit.

Contemporary English Version
A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot produce good fruit.

New American Bible
A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a rotten tree bear good fruit.

Douay-Rheims Bible
A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can an evil tree bring forth good fruit.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can an evil tree bring forth good fruit.

cannot.

Galatians 5:17 For the flesh lusteth against the spirit: and the spirit against the flesh: For these are contrary one to another: so that you do not the things that you would.

1 John 3:9,10 Whosoever is born of God committeth not sin: for his seed abideth in him. And he cannot sin, because he is born of God. . . .

Context
A Tree and its Fruit
17Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit, and the evil tree bringeth forth evil fruit. 18A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can an evil tree bring forth good fruit. 19Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit, shall be cut down, and shall be cast into the fire.…
Cross References
Matthew 7:17
Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit, and the evil tree bringeth forth evil fruit.

Matthew 7:19
Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit, shall be cut down, and shall be cast into the fire.

Luke 6:43
For there is no good tree that bringeth forth evil fruit: nor an evil tree that bringeth forth good fruit.

Matthew 7:17
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