Luke 6:43
For a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit; neither doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
KJV
οὐ γάρ ἐστιν δένδρον καλὸν ποιοῦν καρπὸν σαπρόν, οὐδὲ πάλιν δένδρον σαπρὸν ποιοῦν καρπὸν καλόν.
Greek NT
Non est enim arbor bona, quæ facit fructus malos : neque arbor mala, faciens fructum bonum.
Vulgate
For there is no good tree that bringeth forth corrupt fruit; nor again a corrupt tree that bringeth forth good fruit.
ASV
For there is no good tree that bringeth forth evil fruit: nor an evil tree that bringeth forth good fruit.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
10 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
- πάλιν — SBLGNT
- πάλιν — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
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Cross-references
- Gen 1:11 — And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
- Isa 5:4 — What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?
- Isa 61:3 — To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteou
- Jas 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.
- Jer 2:21 — Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?
- Matt 3:10 — And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
- Matt 7:16 — Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
- Matt 7:16 — Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
- Matt 12:33 — Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit.
- Matt 12:33 — Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit.
- Matt 13:23 — But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.
- Prov 20:11 — Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.
- Ps 92:12 — The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.