Matthew 7:20 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

Therefore, you will recognize them [i.e., prophets] by their fruit [i.e., by what their lives produce].

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Therefore, you will fully know them by their fruits.

American Standard Version (1901)

Therefore by their fruits ye shall know them.

Common English Bible

Therefore, you will know them by their fruit.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Therefore, by their fruits you will know them.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Wherefore by their fruits you shall know them.

Matthew 7:20 Cross References

Matthew 12:33

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

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?

Luke 6:44

For each tree is recognized by its own fruit. For people do not harvest figs from thorn bushes, nor grapes from a brier bush.

Acts 5:38

And so now I say, hold off your accusations and let these men alone, for if their planning and effort is [merely] of human origin, it will be defeated,

James 3:12

My brothers, can a fig tree produce olives or a grapevine [produce] figs? Neither can a salt water [spring] produce fresh water.