Luke 6:44 - Compare All Versions

Luke 6:43-45 MSG (The Message)

“You don’t get wormy apples off a healthy tree, nor good apples off a diseased tree. The health of the apple tells the health of the tree. You must begin with your own life-giving lives. It’s who you are, not what you say and do, that counts. Your true being brims over into true words and deeds.

Luke 6:44 KJV (King James Version)

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.

Luke 6:44 NASB1995 (New American Standard Bible - 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.

Luke 6:44 NCV (New Century Version)

Each tree is known by its own fruit. People don’t gather figs from thornbushes, and they don’t get grapes from bushes.

Luke 6:44 ASV (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.

Luke 6:44 NIV (New International Version)

Each tree is recognized by its own fruit. People do not pick figs from thornbushes, or grapes from briers.

Luke 6:44 NKJV (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.

Luke 6:44 AMP (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.

Luke 6:44 NLT (New Living Translation)

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

Luke 6:44 TPT (The Passion Translation)

Every tree will be revealed by the quality of fruit that it produces. You will never pick figs or grapes from thorn trees.

Luke 6:44 ESV (English Standard Version 2025)

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