Matthew 3:8
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Bring forth therefore fruit worthy of penance.

Luke 3:8
Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of penance: and do not begin to say, We have Abraham for our father. For I say unto you that God is able of these stones, to raise up children to Abraham.

Acts 26:20
But to them first that are at Damascus and at Jerusalem, and unto all the country of Judea, and to the Gentiles did I preach, that they should do penance and turn to God, doing works worthy of penance.

Ephesians 5:8
For you were heretofore darkness, but now light in the Lord. Walk then as children of the light.

Ephesians 5:9
For the fruit of the light is in all goodness and justice and truth:

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Bring forth therefore fruit worthy of penance.

forth.

Matthew 21:28-30,32 But what think you? A certain man had two sons: and coming to the first, he said: Son, go work to day in my vineyard. . . .

Isaiah 1:16,17 Wash yourselves, be clean, take away the evil of your devices from my eyes, cease to do perversely, . . .

Luke 3:8,10-14 Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of penance: and do not begin to say, We have Abraham for our father. For I say unto you that God is able of these stones, to raise up children to Abraham. . . .

Acts 26:20 But to them first that are at Damascus and at Jerusalem, and unto all the country of Judea, and to the Gentiles did I preach, that they should do penance and turn to God, doing works worthy of penance.

Romans 2:4-7 Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and patience and longsuffering? Knowest thou not that the benignity of God leadeth thee to penance? . . .

2 Corinthians 7:10,11 For the sorrow that is according to God worketh penance, steadfast unto salvation: but the sorrow of the world worketh death. . . .

2 Peter 1:4-8 By whom he hath given us most great and precious promises: that by these you may be made partakers of the divine nature: flying the corruption of that concupiscence which is in the world. . . .

fruits.

Galatians 5:22,23 But the fruit of the Spirit is, charity, joy, peace, patience, benignity, goodness, longanimity, . . .

Ephesians 5:9 For the fruit of the light is in all goodness and justice and truth:

Philippians 1:11 Filled with the fruit of justice, through Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.

meet, etc.

Jeremiah 7:3-7 Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Make your ways and your doings good: and I will dwell with you in this place. . . .

Jeremiah 26:13 Now therefore amend your ways, and your doings, and hearken to the voice of the Lord your God: and the Lord will repent him of the evil that he hath spoken against you.

Jeremiah 36:3 If so be, when the house of Juda shall hear all the evils that I purpose to do unto them, that they may return every man from his wicked way: and I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin.

Context
The Mission of John the Baptist
7And seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them: Ye brood of vipers, who hath shewed you to flee from the wrath to come? 8Bring forth therefore fruit worthy of penance. 9And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham for our father. For I tell you that God is able of these stones to raise up children to Abraham.…
Lexicon
Produce
ποιήσατε (poiēsate)
Verb - Aorist Imperative Active - 2nd Person Plural
Strong's Greek 4160: (a) I make, manufacture, construct, (b) I do, act, cause. Apparently a prolonged form of an obsolete primary; to make or do.

fruit
καρπὸν (karpon)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's Greek 2590: Probably from the base of harpazo; fruit, literally or figuratively.

worthy
ἄξιον (axion)
Adjective - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's Greek 514: Worthy, worthy of, deserving, comparable, suitable. Probably from ago; deserving, comparable or suitable.

of repentance.
μετανοίας (metanoias)
Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular
Strong's Greek 3341: From metanoeo; compunction; by implication, reversal (another's) decision).


Additional Translations
Produce fruit worthy of repentance.

Therefore produce fruit worthy of repentance.

Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance:

Bring forth therefore fruit worthy of repentance:

Produce therefore fruit worthy of repentance.

Bring forth therefore fruit worthy of repentance:

Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance:

Therefore let your lives prove your change of heart;

Therefore bring forth fruit worthy of repentance!

bear, therefore, fruits worthy of the reformation,
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