Matthew 7:16 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

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?

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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?

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Matthew 7:16 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 7:20

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

Galatians 5:22

But the fruit produced by the Holy Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness,

James 2:18

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.

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.