Luke 6:44
Good News Translation
Every tree is known by the fruit it bears; you do not pick figs from thorn bushes or gather grapes from bramble bushes.

New Revised Standard Version
for each tree is known by its own fruit. Figs are not gathered from thorns, nor are grapes picked from a bramble bush.

Contemporary English Version
You can tell what a tree is like by the fruit it produces. You cannot pick figs or grapes from thornbushes.

New American Bible
For every tree is known by its own fruit. For people do not pick figs from thornbushes, nor do they gather grapes from brambles.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

For of.

Galatians 5:19-23 Now the works of the flesh are manifest: which are fornication, uncleanness, immodesty, luxury, . . .

Titus 2:11-13 For the grace of God our Saviour hath appeared to all men: . . .

James 3:12 Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear grapes? Or the vine, figs? So neither can the salt water yield sweet.

Jude 1:12 These are spots in their banquets, feasting together without fear, feeding themselves: clouds without water, which are carried about by winds: trees of the autumn, unfruitful, twice dead, plucked up by the roots:

grapes.

Context
A Tree and its Fruit
43For there is no good tree that bringeth forth evil fruit: nor an evil tree that bringeth forth good fruit. 44For 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. 45A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth that which is evil. For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.…
Cross References
Matthew 7:16
By their fruits you shall know them. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?

Matthew 7:20
Wherefore by their fruits you shall know them.

Matthew 12:33
Either make the tree good and its fruit good: or make the tree evil, and its fruit evil. For by the fruit the tree is known.

Luke 6:43
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