凭着他们的果子，就可以认出他们来。荆棘上岂能摘葡萄呢？蒺藜里岂能摘无花果呢？

岂能在荆棘上摘葡萄呢？岂能在蒺藜里摘无花果呢？凭着他们的果子，就可以认出他们来。

岂能在荆棘上摘葡萄呢？岂能在蒺藜里摘无花果呢？凭着他们的果子，就可以认出他们来。

你们可以凭他们结的果子认出他们。荆棘怎能结出葡萄呢？蒺藜怎能长出无花果呢？

凭着他们的果子就可以认出他们来：荆棘里怎能摘到葡萄？蒺藜里怎能摘到无花果呢？

凭着他们的果子，你们就能认出他们来。难道从荆棘上能收葡萄，从蒺藜中能收无花果吗？

憑着他們的果子，就可以認出他們來。荊棘上豈能摘葡萄呢？蒺藜裏豈能摘無花果呢？

豈能在荊棘上摘葡萄呢？豈能在蒺藜裏摘無花果呢？憑着他們的果子，就可以認出他們來。

豈能在荊棘上摘葡萄呢？豈能在蒺藜裏摘無花果呢？憑着他們的果子，就可以認出他們來。

你們可以憑他們結的果子認出他們。荊棘怎能結出葡萄呢？蒺藜怎能長出無花果呢？

憑著他們的果子就可以認出他們來：荊棘裡怎能摘到葡萄？蒺藜裡怎能摘到無花果呢？

從他們的果子，就可以認出來。荊棘裏哪能收取葡萄呢？蒺藜裏哪能收取無花果呢？

憑著他們的果子，你們就能認出他們來。難道從荊棘上能收葡萄，從蒺藜中能收無花果嗎？

是可因其果識之、荊棘中豈摘葡萄乎、蒺藜中豈採無花果乎、

是可因其果識之、荊棘中、豈摘葡萄乎、蒺藜內、豈采無花果乎、

觀其果、即可識之、荊棘中豈摘葡萄乎、蒺藜中豈採無花果乎、

惟視其實、可以辨之。夫荊棘豈能產葡萄、蒺蔾豈能產鳳果乎？

By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?

You can tell each tree by its fruit. Do people pick grapes from bushes? Do they pick figs from thorns?

You will recognize them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?

You can identify them by their fruit, that is, by the way they act. Can you pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?

You’ll recognize them by their fruit. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes or figs from thistles?

You will know them by their fruits. Grapes are not gathered from thorn bushes, nor figs from thistles, are they?

You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles?

By their fruits ye shall know them. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?

You’ll recognize them by their fruit. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes or figs from thistles?

Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?

You will recognize them by their fruit. Grapes are not gathered from thorns or figs from thistles, are they?

By their fruits you will know them. Do you gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles?

“ No good tree bears bad fruit, nor does a bad tree bear good fruit.Each tree is recognized by its own fruit. People do not pick figs from thornbushes, or grapes from briers.A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of. (niv)

My brothers and sisters, can a fig tree bear olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Neither can a salt spring produce fresh water. (niv)

“ 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 recognized by its fruit. (niv)

Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them. (niv)

This is especially true of those who follow the corrupt desire of the flesh and despise authority. Bold and arrogant, they are not afraid to heap abuse on celestial beings;yet even angels, although they are stronger and more powerful, do not heap abuse on such beings when bringing judgment on them from the Lord.But these people blaspheme in matters they do not understand. They are like unreasoning animals, creatures of instinct, born only to be caught and destroyed, and like animals they too will perish.They will be paid back with harm for the harm they have done. Their idea of pleasure is to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their pleasures while they feast with you.With eyes full of adultery, they never stop sinning; they seduce the unstable; they are experts in greed— an accursed brood!They have left the straight way and wandered off to follow the way of Balaam son of Bezer, who loved the wages of wickedness.But he was rebuked for his wrongdoing by a donkey— an animal without speech— who spoke with a human voice and restrained the prophet’s madness.These people are springs without water and mists driven by a storm. Blackest darkness is reserved for them.For they mouth empty, boastful words and, by appealing to the lustful desires of the flesh, they entice people who are just escaping from those who live in error. (niv)

Yet these people slander whatever they do not understand, and the very things they do understand by instinct— as irrational animals do— will destroy them.Woe to them! They have taken the way of Cain; they have rushed for profit into Balaam’s error; they have been destroyed in Korah’s rebellion.These people are blemishes at your love feasts, eating with you without the slightest qualm— shepherds who feed only themselves. They are clouds without rain, blown along by the wind; autumn trees, without fruit and uprooted— twice dead.They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their shame; wandering stars, for whom blackest darkness has been reserved forever.Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about them:“ See, the Lord is coming with thousands upon thousands of his holy onesto judge everyone, and to convict all of them of all the ungodly acts they have committed in their ungodliness, and of all the defiant words ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”These people are grumblers and faultfinders; they follow their own evil desires; they boast about themselves and flatter others for their own advantage.But, dear friends, remember what the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ foretold.They said to you,“ In the last times there will be scoffers who will follow their own ungodly desires.”These are the people who divide you, who follow mere natural instincts and do not have the Spirit. (niv)