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Listen and Do

43 “Certainly a good tree does not produce bad fruit, and a bad tree does not produce good fruit. 44 In fact, each tree is known by its own fruit. For people do not gather figs from thorn bushes, and they do not gather grapes from a bramble bush. 45 The good person brings what is good out of the good stored in his heart, and the evil person brings what is evil out of the evil within.[a] To be sure, what his mouth speaks flows from the heart.

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 6:45 Some witnesses to the text read out of the evil treasure of his heart.

The Sermon on the Plain: Trees and Their Fruit

43 “For there is no good tree that produces bad fruit, nor on the other hand a bad tree that produces good fruit, 44 for each tree is known by its own fruit. For figs are not gathered from thorn plants, nor are grapes harvested from thorn bushes. 45 The good person out of the good treasury of his heart brings forth good, and the evil person out of his[a] evil treasury[b] brings forth evil. For out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 6:45 Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
  2. Luke 6:45 The word “treasury” here is an understood repetition from earlier in the verse