Translations
F.O.G.MPrimary
F.O.G MessageA healthy tree produces good fruit; a diseased tree produces bad fruit.
F.O.GSecondary
The F.O.GLikewise, every healthy tree bears good fruit, but the diseased tree bears rotten fruit.
KJV
King James VersionEven so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.
BSB
Berean Standard BibleLikewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit.
Footnotes
σαπρόν (sapron) means rotten, putrid, or decayed — applied to a tree, it suggests a fundamentally diseased organism, not merely one having an unproductive season. The contrast with καλόν (good/beautiful) is sharp: the diseased tree is not less fruitful but organically corrupted. F.O.G renders this 'rotten' to preserve the decay connotation; F.O.G Message uses 'bad' as accessible shorthand, though it softens the image of putrefaction.
