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Luke 6:44–45

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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.
A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.
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From verse 44

  1. James 3:12Rank 1 from verse 44
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    12Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.

  2. Matthew 12:33Rank 2 from verse 44
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    33Either 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.

  3. Galatians 5:19–23Rank 3 from verse 44
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    19Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

    20Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,

    21Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

    22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,

    23Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

  4. Titus 2:11–13Rank 4 from verse 44
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    11For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,

    12Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;

    13Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;

  5. Jude 1:12Rank 5 from verse 44
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    12These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

From verse 45

  1. Proverbs 4:23Rank 1 from verse 45
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    23¶ Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

  2. Matthew 12:34–37Rank 2 from verse 45
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    34O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

    35A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.

    36But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.

    37For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.

  3. Ephesians 4:29Rank 3 from verse 45
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    29Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

  4. John 7:38Rank 4 from verse 45
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    38He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.

  5. Psalms 37:30–31Rank 5 from verse 45
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    30The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment.

    31The law of his God is in his heart; none of his steps shall slide.

  6. Psalms 59:12Rank 6 from verse 45
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    12For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak.

  7. Colossians 3:16Rank 7 from verse 45
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    16Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.

  8. Psalms 52:2–4Rank 8 from verse 45
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    2Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp rasor, working deceitfully.

    3Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.

    4Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.

  9. Colossians 4:6Rank 9 from verse 45
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    6Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.

  10. Hebrews 8:10Rank 10 from verse 45
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    10For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:

  11. Romans 3:13–14Rank 11 from verse 45
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    13Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:

    14Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:

  12. Proverbs 10:20–21Rank 12 from verse 45
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    20The tongue of the just is as choice silver: the heart of the wicked is little worth.

    21The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom.

  13. Proverbs 12:18Rank 13 from verse 45
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    18There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.

  14. James 3:5–8Rank 14 from verse 45
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    5Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!

    6And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.

    7For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:

    8But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

  15. Psalms 12:2–4Rank 15 from verse 45
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    2They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.

    3The Lord shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things:

    4Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?

  16. Psalms 41:6–7Rank 16 from verse 45
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    6And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; when he goeth abroad, he telleth it.

    7All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt.

  17. Acts 8:19–23Rank 17 from verse 45
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    19Saying, Give me also this power, that on whomsoever I lay hands, he may receive the Holy Ghost.

    20But Peter said unto him, Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money.

    21Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter: for thy heart is not right in the sight of God.

    22Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee.

    23For I perceive that thou art in the gall of bitterness, and in the bond of iniquity.

  18. Psalms 40:8–10Rank 18 from verse 45
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    8I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.

    9I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O Lord, thou knowest.

    10I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation.

  19. Ephesians 5:19Rank 19 from verse 45
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    19Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;

  20. Psalms 64:3–8Rank 20 from verse 45
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    3Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:

    4That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.

    5They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them?

    6They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward thought of every one of them, and the heart, is deep.

    7But God shall shoot at them with an arrow; suddenly shall they be wounded.

    8So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall flee away.

  21. Ephesians 5:3–4Rank 21 from verse 45
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    3But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;

    4Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.

  22. Jeremiah 9:2–5Rank 22 from verse 45
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    2Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

    3And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the Lord.

    4Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders.

    5And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.

  23. 2 Corinthians 4:6–7Rank 23 from verse 45
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    6For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

    7But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.

  24. Proverbs 15:23Rank 24 from verse 45
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    23A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is it!

  25. Psalms 71:15–18Rank 25 from verse 45
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    15My mouth shall shew forth thy righteousness and thy salvation all the day; for I know not the numbers thereof.

    16I will go in the strength of the Lord God: I will make mention of thy righteousness, even of thine only.

    17O God, thou hast taught me from my youth: and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works.

    18Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come.

  26. Proverbs 22:17–18Rank 26 from verse 45
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    17Bow down thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine heart unto my knowledge.

    18For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips.

  27. Psalms 140:5Rank 27 from verse 45
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    5The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.

  28. Psalms 59:7Rank 28 from verse 45
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    7Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords are in their lips: for who, say they, doth hear?

  29. Acts 5:3Rank 29 from verse 45
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    3But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land?

  30. Jude 1:15Rank 30 from verse 45
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    15To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.

  31. Ephesians 3:8Rank 31 from verse 45
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    8Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;

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Luke 6:44

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for

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1. In behalf of or in the place of. 2. With respect to, concerning, or toward. 3. Because of or on account of. 4. During or throughout. 5. In order to obtain or reach. 6. As a conjunction, because or seeing that.

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every

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Each individual or member of the class, group, place, time, side, or kind named; all distributively.

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fruit

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Sense 1: The produce borne by plants or the land. Sense 2: Offspring or increase. Sense 3: A result, product, consequence, character, or work proceeding from something.

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thorns

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Sense 1: Sharp spines or prickles. Sense 2: Thorn-bearing plants and figures of things that prick, obstruct, or grieve.

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Luke 6:45

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good

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Sense 1: Right, morally upright, beneficial, pleasing, useful, suitable, sound, favourable, or excellent. Sense 2: A good thing, benefit, welfare, possession, or goods. Sense 3: In ‘make good,’ to repair, repay, fulfil, establish, or prove.

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man

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1. A human being or person. 2. Mankind collectively. 3. A male person.

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out

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Outside, away from within, forth, absent, or no longer in a stated condition.

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treasure

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Sense 1: Valuable things or provisions stored; a specially valued possession. Sense 2: An inward store from which something is brought forth.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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heart

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Sense 1: The bodily organ. Sense 2: The inward person: the mind, will, affections, conscience, or moral character.

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forth

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1. Outward, away, or forward from a place, person, possession, or former position. 2. In constructions of bearing or producing, into birth, growth, fruit, or another stated result. 3. With verbs such as put, stretch, spread, or reach, outward by extension or exertion. 4. In constructions of showing, speaking, issuing, or displaying, into view, expression, publication, or effect. 5. Onward from a stated time or point, as in from that time forth.

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which

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1. An interrogative or relative pronoun identifying one or more persons or things from a stated or implied set. 2. That which; what.

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evil

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Sense 1: Moral wickedness, sin, wrong, or corruption. Sense 2: Harm, misery, calamity, adversity, or punishment.

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COMBINED MEANING

for

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1. In behalf of or in the place of. 2. With respect to, concerning, or toward. 3. Because of or on account of. 4. During or throughout. 5. In order to obtain or reach. 6. As a conjunction, because or seeing that.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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mouth

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Sense 1: The bodily opening used for eating, breathing, and speaking. Sense 2: The opening or entrance of a thing. Sense 3: Speech, utterance, or the agency of speaking.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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6:39And he spake a parable unto them, Can the blind lead the blind? shall they not both fall into the ditch?

6:40The disciple is not above his master: but every one that is perfect shall be as his master.

6:41And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but perceivest not the beam that is in thine own eye?

6:42Either 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.

6:43For a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit; neither doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.

6:44For every tree is known by his own fruit. For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes.

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6:45A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.

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