Luke 6:43
Good News Translation
"A healthy tree does not bear bad fruit, nor does a poor tree bear good fruit.

New Revised Standard Version
“No good tree bears bad fruit, nor again does a bad tree bear good fruit;

Contemporary English Version
A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot produce good fruit.

New American Bible
“A good tree does not bear rotten fruit, nor does a rotten tree bear good fruit.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For there is no good tree that bringeth forth evil fruit: nor an evil tree that bringeth forth good fruit.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For there is no good tree that bringeth forth evil fruit: nor an evil tree that bringeth forth good fruit.

Psalm 92:12-14 The just shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow up like the cedar of Libanus. . . .

Isaiah 5:4 What is there that I ought to do more to my vineyard, that I have not done to it? was it that I looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it hath brought forth wild grapes?

Isaiah 61:3 To appoint to the mourners of Sion, and to give them a crown for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, a garment of praise for the spirit of grief: and they shall be called in it the mighty ones of justice, the planting of the Lord to glorify him.

Jeremiah 2:21 Yet, I planted thee a chosen vineyard, all true seed: how then art thou turned unto me into that which is good for nothing, O strange vineyard?

Matthew 3:10 For now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that doth not yield good fruit, shall be cut down, and cast into the fire.

Matthew 7:16-20 By their fruits you shall know them. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? . . .

Matthew 12:33 Either make the tree good and its fruit good: or make the tree evil, and its fruit evil. For by the fruit the tree is known.

Context
A Tree and its Fruit
42Or how canst thou say to thy brother: Brother, let me pull the mote out of thy eye, when thou thyself seest not the beam in thy own eye? Hypocrite, cast first the beam out of thy own eye: and then shalt thou see clearly to take out the mote from thy brother's eye. 43For there is no good tree that bringeth forth evil fruit: nor an evil tree that bringeth forth good fruit. 44For 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.…
Cross References
Matthew 7:16
By their fruits you shall know them. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?

Matthew 7:18
A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can an evil tree bring forth good fruit.

Matthew 12:33
Either make the tree good and its fruit good: or make the tree evil, and its fruit evil. For by the fruit the tree is known.

Luke 6:42
Or how canst thou say to thy brother: Brother, let me pull the mote out of thy eye, when thou thyself seest not the beam in thy own eye? Hypocrite, cast first the beam out of thy own eye: and then shalt thou see clearly to take out the mote from thy brother's eye.

Luke 6:42
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