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.
Parallel translations
- 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.
- BSB For each tree is known by its own fruit. Indeed, figs are not gathered from thornbushes, nor grapes from brambles.
- NKJV For every tree is known by its own fruit. For men do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather grapes from a bramble bush.
- NASB For each tree is known by its own fruit. For people do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they pick grapes from a briar bush.
- NLT A tree is identified by its fruit. Figs are never gathered from thornbushes, and grapes are not picked from bramble bushes.
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Cross-references · 5
- Jas 3:12Can a fig tree, my brothers, yield olives, or a vine figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh water.
- Matt 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.
- Gal 5:19–23Now the deeds of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,
- Titus 2:11–13For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men,
- Jude 1:12These are hidden rocky reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you, shepherds who without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
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