Matthew 7:16 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁶ You will know them by their fruits. Are grapes 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?

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

Proverbs 20:11

Even a child makes himself known by his acts, whether what he does is pure and right.

Matthew 12:33

“Either make the tree good, and its fruit good; or make the tree bad, and its fruit bad; for the tree is known by its fruit.

Matthew 7:20

Thus you will know them by their fruits.

Galatians 5:22

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

James 2:18

But some one will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from your works, and I by my works will show you my faith.

James 3:12

Can a fig tree, my brethren, yield olives, or a grapevine figs? No more can salt water yield fresh.

1 Samuel 24:13

As the proverb of the ancients says, ‘Out of the wicked comes forth wickedness’; but my hand shall not be against you.