Luke 6:43
41 Why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but fail to notice the beam in your own eye?
42 How can you say, ‘Brother, let me take the speck out of your eye,’ while you yourself fail to see the beam in your own eye? You hypocrite! First take the beam out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
No good tree bears bad fruit, nor does a bad tree bear good fruit.
44 For each tree is known by its own fruit. Indeed, figs are not gathered from thornbushes, nor grapes from brambles.
45 The 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.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- No good tree bears bad fruit, nor does a bad tree bear good fruit.
- KJV
- For a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit; neither doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
- WEB
- “For there is no good tree that produces rotten fruit, nor again a rotten tree that produces good fruit.
- ASV
- For there is no good tree that bringeth forth corrupt fruit; nor again a corrupt tree that bringeth forth good fruit.
- DARBY
- For there is no good tree which produces corrupt fruit, nor a corrupt tree which produces good fruit;
- BLB
- For there is no good tree producing rotten fruit, nor again a rotten tree producing good fruit.
- ÅB
- For det er ikke noe godt tre som bærer dårlig frukt, og heller ikke noe dårlig tre som bærer god frukt.
- OTB
- Et friskt tre gir ikke dårlig frukt, og et sykt tre gir ikke god frukt.
- B1930
- For det er ikke noget godt tre som bærer dårlig frukt, og heller ikke noget dårlig tre som bærer god frukt.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
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.
Read in contextMatthew 7:16–20
By their fruit you will recognize them. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?
Read in contextJeremiah 2:21
I had planted you like a choice vine from the very best seed. How could you turn yourself before Me into a rotten, wild vine?
Read in contextMatthew 3:10
The axe lies ready at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.
Read in contextPsalms 92:12–14
The righteous will flourish like a palm tree, and grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
Read in contextIsaiah 5:4
What more could I have done for My vineyard than I already did for it? Why, when I expected sweet grapes, did it bring forth sour fruit?
Read in contextIsaiah 61:3
to console the mourners in Zion— to give them a crown of beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, and a garment of praise for a spirit of despair. So they will be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified.
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