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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.

Galatians 5:21
905 votes

“envyings, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the Kingdom of God.”

Galatians 5:19
810 votes

“Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,”

Galatians 5:20
786 votes

“idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies,”

Galatians 5:22
614 votes

“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,”

Galatians 5:23
485 votes

“gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.”

John 15:13
369 votes

“Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.”

Matthew 7:15
318 votes

“"Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves.”

John 15:7
256 votes

“If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.”

Matthew 7:16
240 votes

“By their fruits you will know them. Do you gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles?”

Matthew 7:17
240 votes

“Even so, every good tree produces good fruit; but the corrupt tree produces evil fruit.”

Matthew 7:19
240 votes

“Every tree that doesn't grow good fruit is cut down, and thrown into the fire.”

John 15:12
237 votes

“"This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.”

Matthew 7:18
234 votes

“A good tree can't produce evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree produce good fruit.”

Matthew 7:20
234 votes

“Therefore, by their fruits you will know them.”

John 15:16
203 votes

“You didn't choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.”

John 15:5
177 votes

“I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.”

John 15:19
176 votes

“If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.”

John 15:18
156 votes

“If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.”

John 15:15
111 votes

“No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn't know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.”

John 15:3
103 votes

“You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.”

John 15:14
103 votes

“You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you.”

John 15:4
100 votes

“Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can't bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me.”

John 15:17
90 votes

“"I command these things to you, that you may love one another.”

John 15:20
90 votes

“Remember the word that I said to you: 'A servant is not greater than his lord.' If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will keep yours also.”

John 15:2
87 votes

“Every branch in me that doesn't bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.”

John 15:1
86 votes

“"I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer.”

John 15:8
84 votes

“"In this is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples.”

John 15:6
82 votes

“If a man doesn't remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch, and is withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned.”

John 15:9
81 votes

“Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.”

John 15:21
77 votes

“But all these things will they do to you for my name's sake, because they don't know him who sent me.”

John 15:26
77 votes

“"When the Counselor has come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will testify about me.”

John 15:22
75 votes

“If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.”

John 15:23
75 votes

“He who hates me, hates my Father also.”

John 15:11
73 votes

“I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be made full.”

John 15:10
66 votes

“If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and remain in his love.”

John 15:24
66 votes

“If I hadn't done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldn't have had sin. But now have they seen and also hated both me and my Father.”

John 15:25
66 votes

“But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, 'They hated me without a cause.'”

John 15:27
61 votes

“You will also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.”

Luke 6:45
50 votes

“The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings out that which is good, and the evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings out that which is evil, for out of the abundance of the heart, his mouth speaks.”

Luke 6:43
18 votes

“For there is no good tree that brings forth rotten fruit; nor again a rotten tree that brings forth good fruit.”

Luke 6:44
15 votes

“For each tree is known by its own fruit. For people don't gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather grapes from a bramble bush.”

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