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Daily Inspiration Quote by Jesus Christ

"If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you"

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A line like this doesn’t comfort so much as corner you. It frames the inner life as either revelation or ruin, with no safe middle option. In the gospel-inflected world Jesus speaks into, the self isn’t a private diary; it’s a battleground where hidden allegiance eventually becomes public consequence. The repetition is doing the work of a hammer: bring forth / do not bring forth, save / destroy. It’s moral pressure rendered as rhythm.

The intent is less self-help than summons. “What is within you” isn’t a vague celebration of personal uniqueness; it’s the demanded emergence of faith, truth-telling, repentance, the Kingdom’s ethic. The subtext is that neutrality is a myth: buried conviction curdles into denial, hypocrisy, or fear. If the interior remains unexpressed, it doesn’t stay safely contained; it metastasizes. Salvation, by contrast, arrives through disclosure - the outward enactment of an inward transformation.

Context matters. Early Christian teaching repeatedly insists that the heart produces fruit, that light isn’t meant to be covered, that confession and witness are not optional accessories to belief. This saying also reflects a community under real social risk: to “bring forth” could mean public identification with an unpopular movement, with consequences. The brilliance - and the sting - is that it turns the question from “What will the world do to me?” into “What will my silence do to me?” It makes hiddenness itself the threat.

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TopicFaith
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Later attribution: Truth and History (Murray G. Murphey, 2008) modern compilation
Text match: 95.59%   Provider: Google Books
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Christ, Jesus. (2026, February 7). If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/if-you-bring-forth-what-is-within-you-what-you-151748/

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Christ, Jesus. "If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you." FixQuotes. February 7, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/if-you-bring-forth-what-is-within-you-what-you-151748/.

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"If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you." FixQuotes, 7 Feb. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/if-you-bring-forth-what-is-within-you-what-you-151748/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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Jesus Christ (4 BC - 33 AC) was a Prophet from Israel.

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