Matthew 7:16 - American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ By their fruits ye shall know them. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ You will fully recognize them by their fruits. Do people pick grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles?

Common English Bible

¹⁶ 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

¹⁶ 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

¹⁶ By their fruits you shall know them. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?

English Standard Version 2016

¹⁶ You will recognize them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?

Matthew 7:16 Cross References

Proverbs 20:11

Even a child maketh himself known by his doings, Whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.

Matthew 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.

Matthew 7:20

Therefore by their fruits ye shall know them.

Galatians 5:22

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

James 2:18

Yea, a man will say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: show me thy faith apart from thy works, and I by my works will show thee my faith.

James 3:12

can a fig tree, my brethren, yield olives, or a vine figs? neither can salt water yield sweet.

1 Samuel 24:13

As saith the proverb of the ancients, Out of the wicked cometh forth wickedness; but my hand shall not be upon thee.