Luke 6:43
For a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit; neither doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
Luke 6:43 in other translations
| BSB | No good tree bears bad fruit, nor does a bad tree bear good fruit. |
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| 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. |
| YLT | ‘For there is not a good tree making bad fruit, nor a bad tree making good fruit; |
| DARBY | For there is no good tree which produces corrupt fruit, nor a corrupt tree which produces good fruit; |
| BBE | For no good tree gives bad fruit, and no bad tree gives good fruit. |
| Webster | For a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit; neither doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. |
What does Luke 6:43 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Luke 6:41-49
41-49. (See on Mt 7:3-5, Mt 7:16-27.)
Barnes' Notes
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Luke 6:37-49
All these sayings Christ often used; it was easy to apply them. We ought to be very careful when we blame others; for we need allowance ourselves. If we are of a giving and a forgiving spirit, we shall ourselves reap the benefit. Though full and exact returns are made in another world, not in this world, yet Providence does what should encourage us in doing good. Those who follow the multitude to do evil, follow in…
Luke 6:43 in the original Greek
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Cross references for Luke 6:43
- Matthew 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.
- Matthew 7:16-20
Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. …
- Jeremiah 2:21
Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?
- Matthew 3:10
And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
- Psalms 92:12-14
The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon. Those that be planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of our God. They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing;
- Isaiah 5:4
What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?
- Isaiah 61:3
To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified.
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Context
- Luke 6:42
Either how canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, let me pull out the mote that is in thine eye, when thou thyself beholdest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine own eye, and then shalt thou see clearly to pull out the mote that is in thy brother’s eye.
- Luke 6:43
For a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit; neither doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
- Luke 6:44
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 6:43 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Porque no es buen árbol el que da malos frutos; ni árbol malo el que da buen fruto. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Car il n’y a pas de bon arbre qui produise de mauvais fruit, ni d’arbre mauvais qui produise de bon fruit; |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Denn es gibt keinen guten Baum, der faule Frucht bringt, noch einen faulen Baum, der gute Frucht bringt; |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Non est enim arbor bona, quæ facit fructus malos: neque arbor mala, faciens fructum bonum. |