Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
From their fruits ye shall know them; do men gather from thorns grapes? or from thistles figs?
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
Holman Bible
International Standard Version
You will know them by their fruit. Grapes aren't gathered from thorns, or figs from thistles, are they?
A Conservative Version
From their fruits ye will know them. Do they gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles?
American Standard Version
By their fruits ye shall know them. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
Amplified
An Understandable Version
You can recognize them by their fruit [i.e., by what their lives produce]. Do people harvest grapes from thorn bushes, or figs from thistle weeds?
Anderson New Testament
By their fruits you will know them. Are grapes gathered from thorns, or figs from thistles?
Bible in Basic English
By their fruits you will get knowledge of them. Do men get grapes from thorns or figs from thistles?
Common New Testament
You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thorn bushes, or figs from thistles?
Daniel Mace New Testament
you will know them by their fruits: do men gather grapes of thorns,
Darby Translation
By their fruits ye shall know them. Do men gather a bunch of grapes from thorns, or from thistles figs?
Godbey New Testament
You shall know them by their fruits. Do the people gather the grape-bunches from thorns, or figs from thistles?
Goodspeed New Testament
You can tell them by their fruit. Do people pick grapes off thorns, or figs off thistles?
John Wesley New Testament
By their fruits ye shall know them. Do men gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles?
Julia Smith Translation
By their fruits shall ye know them. Far from it, do they gather grapes from thorns, or figs from caltrops
King James 2000
You shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
Lexham Expanded Bible
You will recognize them by their fruits: they do not gather grapes from thorn bushes or figs from thistles, [do they]?
Modern King James verseion
You shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns? Or figs of thistles?
Moffatt New Testament
You will know them by their fruit; do men gather grapes from thorns or figs from thistles? No,
Montgomery New Testament
"By their fruits you will know them. Are grapes gathered of thorns, or figs of thistles?
NET Bible
You will recognize them by their fruit. Grapes are not gathered from thorns or figs from thistles, are they?
New Heart English Bible
By their fruits you will know them. Do you gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles?
Noyes New Testament
Ye may know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
Sawyer New Testament
You shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thorns? or figs from thistles?
The Emphasized Bible
By their fruits, shall ye find, them, out, - unless perhaps men gather - from thorns, grapes! or, from thistles, figs!
Thomas Haweis New Testament
By their fruits ye shall know them. Do men gather a bunch of grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles?
Twentieth Century New Testament
By the fruit of their lives you will know them. Do people gather grapes from thorn bushes, or figs from thistles?
Webster
Ye shall know them by their fruits: Do men gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles:
Weymouth New Testament
By their fruits you will easily recognize them. Are grapes gathered from thorns or figs from brambles?
Williams New Testament
You must recognize them by their fruits. People do not pick grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles, do they?
World English Bible
By their fruits you will know them. Do you gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles?
Worrell New Testament
From their fruits ye shall recognize them. Do men gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles?
Worsley New Testament
Ye will know them by their fruits: do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
Themes
Bearing fruit » Everything being known by the fruit it bears
Botany » Laws of nature in the vegetable kingdom uniform in action
Fig tree » Fruit of, illustrative » Of good works
Interlinear
Epiginosko
References
Word Count of 37 Translations in Matthew 7:16
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Sermon On The Mount: Recognizing False Prophets
15 'But, take heed of the false prophets, who come unto you in sheep's clothing, and inwardly are ravening wolves. 16 From their fruits ye shall know them; do men gather from thorns grapes? or from thistles figs? 17 so every good tree doth yield good fruits, but the bad tree doth yield evil fruits.
Names
Cross References
Matthew 12:33
'Either make the tree good, and its fruit good, or make the tree bad, and its fruit bad, for from the fruit is the tree known.
James 3:12
is a fig-tree able, my brethren, olives to make? or a vine figs? so no fountain salt and sweet water is able to make.
Matthew 7:20
therefore from their fruits ye shall know them.
Luke 6:43-45
'For there is not a good tree making bad fruit, nor a bad tree making good fruit;
2 Peter 2:10-18
and chiefly those going behind the flesh in desire of uncleanness, and lordship despising; presumptuous, self-complacent, dignities they are not afraid to speak evil of,
Jude 1:10-19
and these, as many things indeed as they have not known, they speak evil of; and as many things as naturally (as the irrational beasts) they understand, in these they are corrupted;