Matthew 7:17-18
Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit.
Berean Standard Bible, public domain. Read all of Matthew 7 · Words of Christ are set in red.
One song meets this passage
How You Gonna Act Like That · Tyrese
strains against Matthew 7:17-18
A claimed change of heart is undercut by lingering old patterns; the song doesn't explore whether the transformation was real or lasting.
Elsewhere in Matthew 7
- Matthew 7:1-2One · Childhood · What It's Like
- Matthew 7:1-5Signs (Live at Abbey Road Studios, 6/12/19)
- Matthew 7:3-5I'm The Problem · Sorry · Man in the Mirror (2012 Remaster) · Everyone's a Little Bit Racist
- Matthew 7:6La Tortura
- Matthew 7:7I'm Your Angel (with Celine Dion)
- Matthew 7:11luther · Good Good Father
- Matthew 7:12Bad Boys
- Matthew 7:13Highway to Hell
- Matthew 7:13-14Hotel California · Freedom! '90 (2010 Remastered Version)
- Matthew 7:15Burning Down · All The Stars · Something to Believe In
- Matthew 7:21Look into My Eyes (Atlantis Remix)
- Matthew 7:21-23Gotta Serve Somebody
- Matthew 7:24-25Promises (Radio Version) · Firm Foundation (He Won’t) · All For Love (feat. Sting & Rod Stewart) [From "The Three Musketeers" Soundtrack]
- Matthew 7:24-27Don't Let Me Fall
- Matthew 7:26-27Viva La Vida · Looking Through Patient Eyes