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A Tree and Its Fruit

Luke 6:44

In 9 translations

BSB
For each tree is known by its own fruit. Indeed, figs are not gathered from thornbushes, nor grapes from brambles.
KJV
For every tree is known by his own fruit. For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes.
WEB
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.
ASV
For each tree is known by its own fruit. For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes.
LSV
for each tree is known from its own fruit, for they do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they crop a grape from a bramble.
YLT
for each tree from its own fruit is known, for not from thorns do they gather figs, nor from a bramble do they crop a grape.
DBY
for every tree is known by its own fruit, for figs are not gathered from thorns, nor grapes vintaged from a bramble.
DRC
For every tree is known by its fruit. For men do not gather figs from thorns; nor from a bramble bush do they gather the grape.
GNV
For euery tree is knowen by his owne fruite: for neither of thornes gather men figges, nor of bushes gather they grapes.

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Spelling, punctuation and minor wording (2)
  • Spelling of γινώσκεται: Tyndale House: γεινώσκεται.
  • Word order: Textus Receptus, Byzantine text place σταφυλὴν elsewhere in this verse.
SBLGNT apparatus (1)

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  • SBLGNT: σταφυλὴν τρυγῶσιν. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition read σταφυλὴν τρυγῶσιν; Robinson–Pierpont read τρυγῶσιν σταφυλήν.

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Original-language editions

SBLGNT
ἕκαστον γὰρ δένδρον ἐκ τοῦ ἰδίου καρποῦ γινώσκεται· οὐ γὰρ ἐξ ἀκανθῶν συλλέγουσιν σῦκα, οὐδὲ ἐκ βάτου σταφυλὴν τρυγῶσιν.
RP2018
Ἕκαστον γὰρ δένδρον ἐκ τοῦ ἰδίου καρποῦ γινώσκεται. Οὐ γὰρ ἐξ ἀκανθῶν συλλέγουσιν σῦκα, οὐδὲ ἐκ βάτου τρυγῶσιν σταφυλήν.
TR-Boyd
Ἕκαστον γὰρ δένδρον ἐκ τοῦ ἰδίου καρποῦ γινώσκεται. Οὐ γὰρ ἐξ ἀκανθῶν συλλέγουσι σῦκα, οὐδὲ ἐκ βάτου τρυγῶσι σταφυλήν.
SCR1894
εκαστον γαρ δενδρον εκ του ιδιου καρπου γινωσκεται ου γαρ εξ ακανθων συλλεγουσιν συκα ουδε εκ βατου τρυγωσιν σταφυλην

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Matthew 12:33Make a tree good and its fruit will be good, or make a tree bad and its fruit will be bad; for a tree is known by its fruit.
  • James 3:12My brothers, can a fig tree grow olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Neither can a salt spring produce fresh water.
  • Galatians 5:19–23The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery; idolatry and sorcery; hatred, discord, jealousy, and rage; rivalries, divisions, factions, and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I…
  • Titus 2:11–13For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to everyone. It instructs us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live sensible, upright, and godly lives in the present age, as we await the…
  • Jude 1:12These men are hidden reefs in your love feasts, shamelessly feasting with you but shepherding only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried along by the wind; fruitless trees in autumn, twice dead after being…

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