A Tree and Its Fruit
Matthew 7:16
In 9 translations
- BSB
- By their fruit you will recognize them. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?
- KJV
- Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
- WEB
- By their fruits you will know them. Do you gather grapes from thorns or figs from thistles?
- ASV
- By their fruits ye shall know them. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
- LSV
- From their fruits you will know them; do [men] gather grapes from thorns? Or figs from thistles?
- YLT
- From their fruits ye shall know them; do [men] gather from thorns grapes? or from thistles figs?
- DBY
- By their fruits ye shall know them. Do [men] gather a bunch of grapes from thorns, or from thistles figs?
- DRC
- By their fruits you shall know them. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
- GNV
- Ye shall know them by their fruites. Doe men gather grapes of thornes? or figges of thistles?
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- NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles read σταφυλάς (“grapes”); Textus Receptus, Byzantine text read σταφυλήν (“grape”).
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- SBLGNT: σταφυλὰς. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition read σταφυλὰς; Robinson–Pierpont read σταφυλήν.
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Original-language editions
- SBLGNT
- ἀπὸ τῶν καρπῶν αὐτῶν ἐπιγνώσεσθε αὐτούς. μήτι συλλέγουσιν ἀπὸ ἀκανθῶν σταφυλὰς ἢ ἀπὸ τριβόλων σῦκα;
- RP2018
- Ἀπὸ τῶν καρπῶν αὐτῶν ἐπιγνώσεσθε αὐτούς· μήτι συλλέγουσιν ἀπὸ ἀκανθῶν σταφυλήν, ἢ ἀπὸ τριβόλων σῦκα;
- TR-Boyd
- Ἀπὸ τῶν καρπῶν αὐτῶν ἐπιγνώσεσθε αὐτούς· μήτι συλλέγουσιν ἀπὸ ἀκανθῶν σταφυλήν, ἢ ἀπὸ τριβόλων σῦκα;
- SCR1894
- απο των καρπων αυτων επιγνωσεσθε αυτους μητι συλλεγουσιν απο ακανθων σταφυλην η απο τριβολων συκα
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- Luke 6:43–45No good tree bears bad fruit, nor does a bad tree bear good fruit. For each tree is known by its own fruit. Indeed, figs are not gathered from thornbushes, nor grapes from brambles. The good man brings good things out…
- James 3:12My brothers, can a fig tree grow olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Neither can a salt spring produce fresh water.
- 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.
- Matthew 7:20So then, by their fruit you will recognize them.
- 2 Peter 2:10–18Such punishment is specially reserved for those who indulge the corrupt desires of the flesh and despise authority. Bold and self-willed, they are unafraid to slander glorious beings. Yet not even angels, though…
- Jude 1:10–19These men, however, slander what they do not understand, and like irrational animals, they will be destroyed by the things they do instinctively. Woe to them! They have traveled the path of Cain; they have rushed…
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