Luke 6:43
Luke chapter 6 · verse 43 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000For there is no good tree that bringeth forth corrupt fruit; nor again a corrupt tree that bringeth forth good fruit.
KJV
King James Version · 1611For a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit; neither doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901For there is no good tree that bringeth forth corrupt fruit; nor again a corrupt tree that bringeth forth good fruit.
Context
v.42Or how canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, let me cast out the mote that is in thine eye, when thou thyself beholdest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine own eye, and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote that is in thy brother’s eye.
v.43This passage
v.44For each tree is known by its own fruit. For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Psalms 92:12
The righteous shall flourish like the palm-tree: He shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
- Matthew 12:33
Either make the tree good, and its fruit good; or make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by its fruit.
- Isaiah 5:4
What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?
- Matthew 3:10
And even now the axe lieth at the root of the trees: every tree therefore that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
- Jeremiah 2:21
Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine unto me?
- Matthew 7:16
By their fruits ye shall know them. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?