Luke 6:43 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

⁴³ For there is no healthy tree that produces bad fruit; nor is there a diseased tree that produces wholesome fruit.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴³ For a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit; neither doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴³ 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)

⁴³ For there is no good tree that bringeth forth corrupt fruit; nor again a corrupt tree that bringeth forth good fruit.

Common English Bible

⁴³ “A good tree doesn’t produce bad fruit, nor does a bad tree produce good fruit.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴³ For there is no good tree which produces bad fruit, nor does an evil tree produce good fruit.

Luke 6:43 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 3:10

And even now the axe is ready to chop down the trees [i.e., you Jewish people]. Every tree [i.e., person] that does not produce wholesome fruit [i.e., godly, repentant lives] will be cut down and thrown into the fire [i.e., the final punishment of the wicked].

Luke 6:42

Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me take that speck of sawdust out of your eye,’ when you cannot see the board in your own eye? You hypocrite, take the board out of your own eye first; then you will be able to see clearly enough to take out the speck of sawdust that is in your brother’s eye.