Matthew 7:16 - Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ You shall know them by their fruits. Can grapes be gathered from thorns, or figs from 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?

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?

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

A child may be understood by his interests: whether his works may be clean and upright.

Matthew 12:33

Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree evil and its fruit evil. For certainly a tree is known by its fruit.

Matthew 7:20

Therefore, by their fruits you will know them.

Galatians 5:22

But the fruit of the Spirit is charity, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, forbearance,

James 2:18

Now someone may say: "You have faith, and I have works." Show me your faith without works! But I will show you my faith by means of works.

James 3:12

My brothers, can the fig tree yield grapes? Or the vine, figs? Then neither is salt water able to produce fresh water.

1 Samuel 24:13

May the Lord judge between me and you. And may the Lord vindicate me from you. But my hand will not be against you.