Luke 6:44

Twentieth Century New Testament 1904

For every tree is known by its own fruit. People do not gather figs off thorn bushes, nor pick a bunch of grapes off a bramble.

Cross References

Matthew 12:33

You must assume either that both tree and fruit are good, or that both tree and fruit are worthless; since it is by it's fruits that a tree is known.

Matthew 7:16

By the fruit of their lives you will know them. Do people gather grapes from thorn bushes, or figs from thistles?

Matthew 7:20

Hence it is by the fruit of their lives that you will know such men.

James 3:12

Can a fig tree, my Brothers, bear olives? or a vine bear figs? No, nor can a brackish well give good water.

Jude 1:12

These are the men who are blots upon your 'Love-feasts,' when they feast together and provide without scruple for themselves alone. They are clouds without rain, driven before the winds; they are leafless trees without a vestige of fruit, dead through and through, torn up by the roots;