Luke 6:44
New International Version
Each tree is recognized by its own fruit. People do not pick figs from thornbushes, or grapes from briers.

New Living Translation
A tree is identified by its fruit. Figs are never gathered from thornbushes, and grapes are not picked from bramble bushes.

English Standard Version
for each tree is known by its own fruit. For figs are not gathered from thornbushes, nor are grapes picked from a bramble bush.

Berean Standard Bible
For each tree is known by its own fruit. Indeed, figs are not gathered from thornbushes, nor grapes from brambles.

Berean Literal Bible
For each tree is known by its own fruit. For they do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather grapes from a bramble bush.

King James Bible
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.

New King James Version
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.

New American Standard Bible
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.

NASB 1995
“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.

NASB 1977
“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.

Legacy Standard Bible
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.

Amplified Bible
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.

Christian Standard Bible
For each tree is known by its own fruit. Figs aren’t gathered from thornbushes, or grapes picked from a bramble bush.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
For each tree is known by its own fruit. Figs aren’t gathered from thornbushes, or grapes picked from a bramble bush.

American Standard Version
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.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
“For every tree is known by its fruits, for they do not pick figs from thorns, neither do they gather grapes from a bush.”

Contemporary English Version
You can tell what a tree is like by the fruit it produces. You cannot pick figs or grapes from thornbushes.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

English Revised Version
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.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Each tree is known by its fruit. You don't pick figs from thorny plants or grapes from a thornbush.

Good News Translation
Every tree is known by the fruit it bears; you do not pick figs from thorn bushes or gather grapes from bramble bushes.

International Standard Version
because every tree is known by its own fruit. People don't gather figs from thorny plants or pick grapes from a thorn bush.

Literal Standard Version
for each tree is known from its own fruit, for they do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they crop a grape from a bramble.

Majority Standard Bible
For each tree is known by its own fruit. Indeed, figs are not gathered from thornbushes, nor grapes from brambles.

New American Bible
For every tree is known by its own fruit. For people do not pick figs from thornbushes, nor do they gather grapes from brambles.

NET Bible
for each tree is known by its own fruit. For figs are not gathered from thorns, nor are grapes picked from brambles.

New Revised Standard Version
for each tree is known by its own fruit. Figs are not gathered from thorns, nor are grapes picked from a bramble bush.

New Heart English Bible
For each tree is known by its own fruit. For people do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather grapes from a bramble bush.

Webster's Bible Translation
For every tree is known by its own fruit: for from thorns men do not gather figs, nor from a bramble bush do they gather grapes.

Weymouth New Testament
Every tree is known by its own fruit. It is not from thorns that men gather figs, nor from the bramble that they can get a bunch of grapes.

World English Bible
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.

Young's Literal Translation
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.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
A Tree and its Fruit
43No good tree bears bad fruit, nor does a bad tree bear good fruit. 44For each tree is known by its own fruit. Indeed, figs are not gathered from thornbushes, nor grapes from brambles. 45The good man brings good things out of the good treasure of his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil treasure of his heart. For out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks.…

Cross References
Matthew 7:16
By their fruit you will recognize them. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?

Matthew 7:20
So then, by their fruit you will recognize them.

Matthew 12:33
Make a tree good and its fruit will be good, or make a tree bad and its fruit will be bad; for a tree is known by its fruit.


Treasury of Scripture

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.

For of.

Galatians 5:19-23
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, …

Titus 2:11-13
For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, …

James 3:12
Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.

grapes.

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Luke 6
1. Jesus reproves the Pharisees;
12. chooses apostles;
17. heals the diseased;
20. preaches to his disciples before the people: the beattitudes;
27. Love your Enemy
37. Do not Judge
43. A Tree and Its Fruit
46. The House on the Rock














(44) Of thorns men do not gather figs.--The form of the illustration differs slightly from that in St. Matthew, where the thorns are connected with grapes, and the figs with thistles. The word for "bramble bush" is the same as that used in Luke 20:37, and in the LXX. version of Exodus 3:2-4, and Deuteronomy 33:16, for the burning "bush" on Sinai. We may note further the use of a different Greek word (that specially connected, as in Revelation 14:18-19, with the gathering of the vintage) for the second "gather" in St. Luke's report.



Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
For
γὰρ (gar)
Conjunction
Strong's 1063: For. A primary particle; properly, assigning a reason.

each
ἕκαστον (hekaston)
Adjective - Nominative Neuter Singular
Strong's 1538: Each (of more than two), every one. As if a superlative of hekas; each or every.

tree
δένδρον (dendron)
Noun - Nominative Neuter Singular
Strong's 1186: A tree. Probably from drus; a tree.

is known
γινώσκεται (ginōsketai)
Verb - Present Indicative Middle or Passive - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 1097: A prolonged form of a primary verb; to 'know' in a great variety of applications and with many implications.

by
ἐκ (ek)
Preposition
Strong's 1537: From out, out from among, from, suggesting from the interior outwards. A primary preposition denoting origin, from, out.

its
τοῦ (tou)
Article - Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

own
ἰδίου (idiou)
Adjective - Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong's 2398: Pertaining to self, i.e. One's own; by implication, private or separate.

fruit.
καρποῦ (karpou)
Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong's 2590: Probably from the base of harpazo; fruit, literally or figuratively.

Indeed,
γὰρ (gar)
Conjunction
Strong's 1063: For. A primary particle; properly, assigning a reason.

[people] do not gather
συλλέγουσιν (syllegousin)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 4816: To collect, gather. From sun and lego in its original sense; to collect.

figs
σῦκα (syka)
Noun - Accusative Neuter Plural
Strong's 4810: A (ripe) fig. Apparently a primary word; a fig.

from
ἐξ (ex)
Preposition
Strong's 1537: From out, out from among, from, suggesting from the interior outwards. A primary preposition denoting origin, from, out.

thornbushes,
ἀκανθῶν (akanthōn)
Noun - Genitive Feminine Plural
Strong's 173: A thorn-bush, prickly plant; a thorn. Probably from the same as akmen; a thorn.

[or]
οὐδὲ (oude)
Conjunction
Strong's 3761: Neither, nor, not even, and not. From ou and de; not however, i.e. Neither, nor, not even.

grapes
σταφυλὴν (staphylēn)
Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's 4718: A grape, cluster of grapes. Probably from the base of stephanos; a cluster of grapes.

from
ἐκ (ek)
Preposition
Strong's 1537: From out, out from among, from, suggesting from the interior outwards. A primary preposition denoting origin, from, out.

brambles.
βάτου (batou)
Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular
Strong's 942: A thorn bush or bramble. Of uncertain derivation; a brier shrub.


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