Either be a healthy tree and produce wholesome fruit, or be a diseased tree and produce rotten fruit, for [the quality of] a tree will be recognized by [the quality of] its fruit.
Matthew 7:16 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition) You can recognize them by their fruit [i.e., by what their lives produce]. Do people harvest grapes from thorn bushes, or figs from thistle weeds? More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition You will fully recognize them by their fruits. Do people pick grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles? American Standard Version (1901) By their fruits ye shall know them. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Common English Bible You will know them by their fruit. Do people get bunches of grapes from thorny weeds, or do they get figs from thistles? Catholic Public Domain Version You shall know them by their fruits. Can grapes be gathered from thorns, or figs from thistles? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version By their fruits you shall know them. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? |
Either be a healthy tree and produce wholesome fruit, or be a diseased tree and produce rotten fruit, for [the quality of] a tree will be recognized by [the quality of] its fruit.
Therefore, you will recognize them [i.e., prophets] by their fruit [i.e., by what their lives produce].
But the fruit produced by the Holy Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness,
But someone may say, “You have faith and I have [good] deeds.” [I reply], show me your faith without your [good] deeds, and I will show you my faith by my [good] deeds.
My brothers, can a fig tree produce olives or a grapevine [produce] figs? Neither can a salt water [spring] produce fresh water.