Luke 6:43
Modern Translations
New International Version
"No good tree bears bad fruit, nor does a bad tree bear good fruit.

New Living Translation
“A good tree can’t produce bad fruit, and a bad tree can’t produce good fruit.

English Standard Version
“For no good tree bears bad fruit, nor again does a bad tree bear good fruit,

Berean Study Bible
No good tree bears bad fruit, nor does a bad tree bear good fruit.

New American Standard Bible
For there is no good tree that bears bad fruit, nor, on the other hand, a bad tree that bears good fruit.

NASB 1995
"For there is no good tree which produces bad fruit, nor, on the other hand, a bad tree which produces good fruit.

NASB 1977
“For there is no good tree which produces bad fruit; nor, on the other hand, a bad tree which produces good fruit.

Amplified Bible
For there is no good tree which produces bad fruit, nor, on the other hand, a bad tree which produces good fruit.

Christian Standard Bible
“A good tree doesn’t produce bad fruit; on the other hand, a bad tree doesn’t produce good fruit.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
"A good tree doesn't produce bad fruit; on the other hand, a bad tree doesn't produce good fruit.

Contemporary English Version
A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot produce good fruit.

Good News Translation
"A healthy tree does not bear bad fruit, nor does a poor tree bear good fruit.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"A good tree doesn't produce rotten fruit, and a rotten tree doesn't produce good fruit.

International Standard Version
"A good tree doesn't produce rotten fruit, and a rotten tree doesn't produce good fruit,

NET Bible
"For no good tree bears bad fruit, nor again does a bad tree bear good fruit,
Classic Translations
King James Bible
For a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit; neither doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.

New King James Version
“For a good tree does not bear bad fruit, nor does a bad tree bear good fruit.

King James 2000 Bible
For a good tree brings not forth corrupt fruit; neither does a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.

New Heart English Bible
For there is no good tree that brings forth rotten fruit; nor again a rotten tree that brings forth good fruit.

World English Bible
For there is no good tree that brings forth rotten fruit; nor again a rotten tree that brings forth good fruit.

American King James Version
For a good tree brings not forth corrupt fruit; neither does a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.

American Standard Version
For there is no good tree that bringeth forth corrupt fruit; nor again a corrupt tree that bringeth forth good fruit.

A Faithful Version
For there is not a good tree that is producing corrupt fruit; nor is there a corrupt tree that is producing good fruit.

Darby Bible Translation
For there is no good tree which produces corrupt fruit, nor a corrupt tree which produces good fruit;

English Revised Version
For there is no good tree that bringeth forth corrupt fruit; nor again a corrupt tree that bringeth forth good fruit.

Webster's Bible Translation
For a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit; neither doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
For it is not a good tree that bringeth foorth euill fruite: neither an euill tree, that bringeth foorth good fruite.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
For it is not a good tree, that bryngeth foorth euyll fruite: Neither is that an euyll tree, that bryngeth foorth good fruite.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
For it is no good tre, yt bryngeth forth euell frute: and no euell tre yt bringeth forth good frute.

Tyndale Bible of 1526
It is not a good tree that bringeth forthe evyll frute: nether is that an evyll tree that bringeth forthe good frute
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
For there is not a good tree making bad fruit, nor a bad tree making good fruit;

Berean Literal Bible
For there is no good tree producing bad fruit, nor again a bad tree producing good fruit.

Young's Literal Translation
'For there is not a good tree making bad fruit, nor a bad tree making good fruit;

Smith's Literal Translation
For it is not a good tree making decayed fruit; neither a decayed tree making good fruit.

Literal Emphasis Translation
For there is no good tree producing bad fruit; nor again a bad tree producing good fruit;

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
For there is no good tree that bringeth forth evil fruit; nor an evil tree that bringeth forth good fruit.

Catholic Public Domain Version
For there is no good tree which produces bad fruit, nor does an evil tree produce good fruit.

Translations from Aramaic
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
“There is not a good tree that produces bad fruit, neither a bad tree that produces good fruit,”

Lamsa Bible
There is no good tree that bears bad fruits, nor a bad tree that bears good fruits.

NT Translations
Anderson New Testament
For a good tree does not produce unsound fruit; nor does an unsound tree produce good fruit.

Godbey New Testament
For there is no beautiful tree producing corrupt fruit, nor corrupt tree producing beautiful fruit.

Haweis New Testament
For there is no good tree which produceth fruit of a bad quality; neither doth a tree of a bad sort produce good fruit.

Mace New Testament
Certainly a good tree does not produce bad fruit: nor does a bad tree produce good fruit.

Weymouth New Testament
"There is no good tree that yields unsound fruit, nor again any unsound tree that yields good fruit.

Worrell New Testament
"For there is no good tree that bears corrupt fruit; nor again a corrupt tree that bears good fruit;

Worsley New Testament
For that is not a good tree which produceth bad fruit, nor is the tree bad, which produceth good fruit:
















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