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Luke 6:44
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KJ21
For every tree is known by his own fruit. For from thorns men do not gather figs, nor from a bramble bush gather they grapes.
ASV
For each tree is known by its own fruit. For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes.
AMP
For each tree is known and identified by its own fruit. For figs are not picked from thorn bushes, nor is a cluster of grapes picked from a briar bush.
AMPC
For each tree is known and identified by its own fruit; for figs are not gathered from thornbushes, nor is a cluster of grapes picked from a bramblebush.
BRG
For every tree is known by his own fruit. For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes.
CSB
For each tree is known by its own fruit. Figs aren’t gathered from thornbushes, or grapes picked from a bramble bush.
CSBA
For each tree is known by its own fruit. Figs aren’t gathered from thorn bushes, or grapes picked from a bramble bush.
CEB
Each tree is known by its own fruit. People don’t gather figs from thorny plants, nor do they pick grapes from prickly bushes.
CJB
Each tree is recognized by its own fruit — figs aren’t picked from thorn bushes, nor grapes from a briar patch.
CEV
You can tell what a tree is like by the fruit it produces. You cannot pick figs or grapes from thornbushes.
DARBY
for every tree is known by its own fruit, for figs are not gathered from thorns, nor grapes vintaged from a bramble.
DLNT
For each tree is known by its own fruit. For they do not collect figs from thorns, nor do they gather a grape-bunch from a bramble-bush.
DRA
For every tree is known by its fruit. For men do not gather figs from thorns; nor from a bramble bush do they gather the grape.
ERV
Every tree is known by the kind of fruit it produces. You won’t find figs on thorny weeds. And you can’t pick grapes from thornbushes!
EASY
In this way you can know if a tree is good or bad. You can know this by the fruit that the tree makes. Figs and grapes do not grow on thorn bushes.
EHV
In fact, each tree is known by its own fruit. For people do not gather figs from thorn bushes, and they do not gather grapes from a bramble bush.
ESV
for each tree is known by its own fruit. For figs are not gathered from thornbushes, nor are grapes picked from a bramble bush.
ESVUK
for each tree is known by its own fruit. For figs are not gathered from thorn bushes, nor are grapes picked from a bramble bush.
EXB
[L For] Each tree is ·known [identified] by its own fruit. [L For] People don’t ·gather [pick] figs from thornbushes, and they don’t get grapes from ·bushes [brambles; briers].
GNV
For every tree is known by his own fruit: for neither of thorns gather men figs, nor of bushes gather they grapes.
GW
Each tree is known by its fruit. You don’t pick figs from thorny plants or grapes from a thornbush.
GNT
Every tree is known by the fruit it bears; you do not pick figs from thorn bushes or gather grapes from bramble bushes.
HCSB
For each tree is known by its own fruit. Figs aren’t gathered from thornbushes, or grapes picked from a bramble bush.
ICB
Each tree is known by its fruit. People don’t gather figs from thornbushes. And they don’t get grapes from bushes.
ISV
because every tree is known by its own fruit. People don’t gather figs from thorny plants or pick grapes from a thorn bush.
PHILLIPS
“It is impossible for a good tree to produce bad fruit—as impossible as it is for a bad tree to produce good fruit. Do not men know what a tree is by its fruit? You cannot pick figs from briars, or gather a bunch of grapes from a blackberry bush! A good man produces good things from the good stored up in his heart, and a bad man produce evil things from his own stores of evil. For a man’s words will always express what has been treasured in his heart.”
JUB
For every tree is known by its own fruit. For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush do they gather grapes.
KJV
For every tree is known by his own fruit. For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes.
AKJV
For every tree is known by his own fruit. For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes.
LSB
For each tree is known by its own fruit. For men do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they pick grapes from a bramble bush.
LEB
for each tree is known by its own fruit. For figs are not gathered from thorn plants, nor are grapes harvested from thorn bushes.
TLB
A tree is identified by the kind of fruit it produces. Figs never grow on thorns, or grapes on bramble bushes.
MSG
“You don’t get wormy apples off a healthy tree, nor good apples off a diseased tree. The health of the apple tells the health of the tree. You must begin with your own life-giving lives. It’s who you are, not what you say and do, that counts. Your true being brims over into true words and deeds.
MEV
Each tree is known by its own fruit. Men do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather grapes from a wild bush.
MOUNCE
for each tree is known by · its own fruit. For they do not gather figs from thorn-bushes, nor do they pick grapes from brambles.
NOG
Each tree is known by its fruit. You don’t pick figs from thorny plants or grapes from a thornbush.
NABRE
For every tree is known by its own fruit. For people do not pick figs from thornbushes, nor do they gather grapes from brambles.
NASB
For each tree is known by its own fruit. For people do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they pick grapes from a briar bush.
NASB1995
For each tree is known by its own fruit. For men do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they pick grapes from a briar bush.
NCB
Every tree is known by its own fruit. For people do not pick figs from thornbushes or grapes from brambles.
NCV
Each tree is known by its own fruit. People don’t gather figs from thornbushes, and they don’t get grapes from bushes.
NET
for each tree is known by its own fruit. For figs are not gathered from thorns, nor are grapes picked from brambles.
NIRV
You can tell each tree by the kind of fruit it bears. People do not pick figs from thorns. And they don’t pick grapes from bushes.
NIV
Each tree is recognized by its own fruit. People do not pick figs from thornbushes, or grapes from briers.
NIVUK
Each tree is recognised by its own fruit. People do not pick figs from thorn-bushes, or grapes from briers.
NKJV
For every tree is known by its own fruit. For men do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather grapes from a bramble bush.
NLV
For every tree is known by its own fruit. Men do not gather figs from thorns. They do not gather grapes from thistles.
NLT
A tree is identified by its fruit. Figs are never gathered from thornbushes, and grapes are not picked from bramble bushes.
NMB
For every tree is known by its fruit. Neither is it from thorns that men gather figs, nor from bushes that they gather grapes.
NRSVA
for each tree is known by its own fruit. Figs are not gathered from thorns, nor are grapes picked from a bramble bush.
NRSVACE
for each tree is known by its own fruit. Figs are not gathered from thorns, nor are grapes picked from a bramble bush.
NRSVCE
for each tree is known by its own fruit. Figs are not gathered from thorns, nor are grapes picked from a bramble bush.
NRSVUE
for each tree is known by its own fruit. For people do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they pick grapes from a bramble bush.
NTFE
Every tree is known by its fruit. You don’t pick figs from thorns; nor do you get grapes from a briar-bush.
OJB
For each etz by its own pri will be known. For not from thorns do they gather figs nor from a thorn bush do they pick grapes.
RGT
“For every tree is known by its own fruit. For figs are not gathered from thorns, nor are grapes gathered from bushes.
RSV
for each tree is known by its own fruit. For figs are not gathered from thorns, nor are grapes picked from a bramble bush.
RSVCE
for each tree is known by its own fruit. For figs are not gathered from thorns, nor are grapes picked from a bramble bush.
TLV
Each tree comes to be known by its own fruit. For figs are not gleaned out of briars; neither are bunches of grapes gathered from thorn bushes.
VOICE
You can know a tree by the fruit it bears. You don’t find figs on a thorn bush, and you can’t pick grapes from a briar bush.
WEB
For each tree is known by its own fruit. For people don’t gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather grapes from a bramble bush.
WE
Every kind of tree is known by its fruit. People do not pick fruit like figs from thorn trees. And they do not pick grapes from bramble bushes.
WYC
for every tree is known of his fruit. And men gather not figs of thorns, neither men gather a grape of a bush of briers.
YLT
for each tree from its own fruit is known, for not from thorns do they gather figs, nor from a bramble do they crop a grape.
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