MAT 7:20 Parallel Verse View

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Text critical issues=minor spelling Clarity of original=clear Importance=normal (All still tentative.)

OET (OET-RV) So then, you’ll know the false teachers by observing their fruit.

Key: khaki:verbs, orange:accusative/object, pink:genitive/possessor.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).

UST Therefore, you can tell if a plant is healthy or unhealthy by what kind of fruit it produces. In the same way, you can tell what people are really like by the things that they do.

AICNT Therefore, by their fruits you will recognize them.

OEB So it is by the fruit of their lives that you will know such people.

WEBBE Therefore by their fruits you will know them.

WMBB (Same as above)

NET So then, you will recognize them by their fruit.

LSV therefore from their fruits you will know them.

FBV So you'll recognize them by their fruits.

TCNT Therefore by their fruits you will know them.

T4T By seeing what plants produce, you know what kind of plants they are. Similarly, when you see what the people who come to you do, you will know if they are false prophets.”

LEB As a result, you will recognize them by their fruits.
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BBE So by their fruits you will get knowledge of them.

Moff No Moff MAT book available

Wymth So by their fruits at any rate, you will easily recognize them.

ASV Therefore by their fruits ye shall know them.

DRA Wherefore by their fruits you shall know them.

YLT therefore from their fruits ye shall know them.

Drby By their fruits then surely ye shall know them.

RV Therefore by their fruits ye shall know them.

Wbstr Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them,

KJB-1769 Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
( Wherefore by their fruits ye/you_all shall know them. )

KJB-1611 Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above)

Bshps Wherfore, by theyr fruites, ye shall knowe them.
(Wherfore, by their fruits, ye/you_all shall know them.)

Gnva Therefore by their fruites ye shall knowe them.
(Therefore by their fruits ye/you_all shall know them. )

Cvdl Wherfore by their frutes ye shall knowe them.
(Wherefore by their frutes ye/you_all shall know them.)

TNT Wherfore by their frutes ye shall knowe them.
(Wherefore by their frutes ye/you_all shall know them. )

Wycl Therfor of her fruytis ye schulen knowe hem.
(Therefore of her fruits ye/you_all should know them.)

Luth Darum an ihren Früchten sollt ihr sie erkennen.
(Therefore at your Früchten sollt you/their/her they/she/them erkennen.)

ClVg Igitur ex fructibus eorum cognoscetis eos.[fn]
(Igitur from fructibus their cognoscetis them. )

7.20 Igitur ex fructibus. Quasi dicat: A falsis prophetis attendite, et ex fructibus eos cognoscite.

7.20 Igitur from fructibus. Quasi let_him_say: A falsis prophetis attendite, and from fructibus them cognoscite.

UGNT ἄρα γε ἀπὸ τῶν καρπῶν αὐτῶν ἐπιγνώσεσθε αὐτούς.
(ara ge apo tōn karpōn autōn epignōsesthe autous.)

SBL-GNT ἄρα γε ἀπὸ τῶν καρπῶν αὐτῶν ἐπιγνώσεσθε αὐτούς.
(ara ge apo tōn karpōn autōn epignōsesthe autous.)

TC-GNT Ἄρα γε ἀπὸ τῶν καρπῶν αὐτῶν ἐπιγνώσεσθε αὐτούς.
(Ara ge apo tōn karpōn autōn epignōsesthe autous. )

Key for above GNTs: yellow:punctuation differs (from our SR-GNT base).

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: grammar-connect-logic-result

ἄρα γε

consequently surely

Here, the phrase So then introduces the conclusion to what Jesus has been saying about trees, plants, and fruit. If it would be helpful in your language, you could use a word or phrase that introduces a conclusion. Alternate translation: [In conclusion] or [As you can see]

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / exmetaphor

ἀπὸ τῶν καρπῶν αὐτῶν ἐπιγνώσεσθε αὐτούς

by the fruits ˱of˲_them ˱you_all˲_/will_be/_knowing them

Here Jesus continues to speak about people as if they were plants that produced fruits. In this verse, Jesus repeats the general principle he stated in 7:16, so you should express the idea as you did there. Alternate translation: [you will know who people are by what they do, just as you know what plants are by their fruits]

Note 3 topic: writing-pronouns

ἀπὸ τῶν καρπῶν αὐτῶν ἐπιγνώσεσθε αὐτούς

by the fruits ˱of˲_them ˱you_all˲_/will_be/_knowing them

The pronouns their and them refer to any people, but particularly people like the “false prophets” Jesus mentioned in 7:15. If this is not clear for your readers, you could refer directly to the false prophets or to any people who claim to be believers. Alternate translation: [you will recognize the false prophets by their fruits] or [you will recognize anyone who claims to believe by his or her fruits]

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