Luke 6:43

Modern

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

Traditional

For a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit; neither doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.

Literal

For there is no good tree producing rotten fruit, nor again a rotten tree producing good fruit.

Latin

Non est enim arbor bona, quæ facit fructus malos: neque arbor mala, faciens fructum bonum.

Greek

English

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

The main theme of the great sermon of Jesus is that those who repent and enter the kingdom of God will live in a truly righteous way.

Matthew 12:33
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 known by its fruit.
Jeremiah 2:21
I had planted you like a choice vine from the very best seed. How could you turn yourself before Me into a rotten, wild vine?
Matthew 7:16–20
By their fruit you will recognize them. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?
Matthew 3:10
The axe lies ready at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.
Psalm 92:12–14
The righteous will flourish like a palm tree, and grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
Isaiah 5:4
What more could have been done for My vineyard than I have done for it? Why, when I expected sweet grapes, did it bring forth sour fruit?
Isaiah 61:3
…to console the mourners in Zion—to give them a crown of beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, and a garment of praise for a spirit of despair. So they will be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified.