“What more could have been done to My vineyard that I have not done in it? Why, when I waited for the yielding of grapes, did it yield rotten ones?
Luke 6:43 - The Scriptures 1998 “For a good tree does not yield rotten fruit, nor does a rotten tree yield good fruit. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit; neither doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For there is no good (healthy) tree that bears decayed (worthless, stale) fruit, nor on the other hand does a decayed (worthless, sickly) tree bear good fruit. American Standard Version (1901) For there is no good tree that bringeth forth corrupt fruit; nor again a corrupt tree that bringeth forth good fruit. Common English Bible “A good tree doesn’t produce bad fruit, nor does a bad tree produce good fruit. Catholic Public Domain Version For there is no good tree which produces bad fruit, nor does an evil tree produce good fruit. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For there is no good tree that bringeth forth evil fruit; nor an evil tree that bringeth forth good fruit. |
“What more could have been done to My vineyard that I have not done in it? Why, when I waited for the yielding of grapes, did it yield rotten ones?
to appoint unto those who mourn in Tsiyon: to give them embellishment for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness. And they shall be called trees of righteousness, a planting of יהוה, to be adorned.
“Yet I had planted you a choice vine, all of it a true seed. How then have you turned before Me into the degenerate plant of a strange vine?
“Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or else make the tree rotten and its fruit rotten, for a tree is known by its fruit.
“And the axe is already laid to the root of the trees. Every tree, then, which does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
“Or how are you able to say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me take out the splinter that is in your eye,’ not seeing the plank in your own eye? Hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you shall see clearly to take out the splinter that is in your brother’s eye.