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19Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.

Matthew 7:19

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  • And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.

  • 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. …

  • But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.

  • And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: every tree therefore which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.

  • These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 15-20)

We have here a caution against false prophets , to take heed that we be not deceived and imposed upon by them. Prophets are properly such as foretel things to come; there are some mentioned in the Old Testament, who pretended to that without warrant, and the event disproved their pretensions, as Zedekiah, 1 Kgs. 22:11; and another Zedekiah, Jer. 29:21. But prophets did also teach the people their…

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