Matthew 7:16
Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
KJV
ἀπὸ τῶν καρπῶν αὐτῶν ἐπιγνώσεσθε αὐτούς. μήτι συλλέγουσιν ἀπὸ ἀκανθῶν σταφυλὰς ἢ ἀπὸ τριβόλων σῦκα;
Greek NT
a fructibus eorum cognoscetis eos. Numquid colligunt de spinis uvas, aut de tribulis ficus ?
Vulgate
By their fruits ye shall know them. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
ASV
By their fruits you shall know them. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
12 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
καρπός
karpos
noun · 66×
μήτι
meti
particle · 17×
σταφυλή
staphule
noun · 3×
συλλέγω
sullego
verb · 8×
σῦκον
sukon
noun · 4×
τρίβολος
tribolos
noun · 2×
ἀπό
apo
preposition · 640×
ἄκανθα
akantha
noun · 14×
ἐπιγινώσκω
epiginosko
verb · 44×
ἤ
e
particle · 346×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
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SBLGNT: σταφυλὰς | WH/Treg/NIV: σταφυλὰς | RP: σταφυλήν
- σταφυλὰς — SBLGNT
- σταφυλὰς — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- σταφυλήν — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
Historic Christian voices
7 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Homilies on Matthew · 3 passages
2. For with what judgment ye judge, says He, you shall be judged. Matthew 7:2 That is, it is not the other, says Christ, that you condemn, but yourself, and you are making the judgment-seat dreadful to yourself, and the account strict. As then in the forgiveness of our sins the beginnings are from us, so also in this judgment, it is by ourselves that the measures of our condemn…
2. Wherefore not those that are slandered, but the slanderers, have need to be anxious and to tremble. For the former are not constrained to answer for themselves touching the evil things which are said of them, but the latter will, for the evil they have spoken; and over these impends the whole danger. So that the persons censured should be without anxiety, not being to give a…
2. Another parable put He forth unto them, saying, The Kingdom of Heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed. That is, since He had said, that of the crop three parts are lost, and but one saved, and in the very part again which is saved so great damage ensues; lest they should say, And who, and how many will be the faithful? this fear again He removes, by the parable of the mus…
Gracious and holy affections have their exercise and fruit in Christian practice. This is the chief of all the signs of grace. Holy practice is the principal evidence of the truth of grace, both to the consciences of Christians themselves and to the observation of others. Men's deeds are the best interpreters of their words and profession.
Judge not, that ye be not judged. Enter ye in at the strait gate. Strive to enter in, for many shall seek to enter in and shall not be able. The narrow way is the way of universal holiness: holy tempers, holy desires, holy words, holy actions. By their fruits ye shall know them — not by their profession, not by their opinions, but by the tenor of their lives.
Cross-references
- 1John 2:29 — If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him.
- 1Sam 24:13 — As saith the proverb of the ancients, Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked: but mine hand shall not be upon thee.
- 2Pet 2:10 — But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.
- Gal 5:22 — But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
- 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.
- Jas 2:18 — Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works.
- 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.
- 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.
- Jude 1:10 — But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.
- Luke 6:43 — For a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit; neither doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
- Luke 6:43 — For a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit; neither doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
- Matt 7:20 — Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
- Matt 7:20 — Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
- 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.
- Prov 20:11 — Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.
- Prov 31:31 — Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates.