Matthew 7:20

American Standard Version (1901)

Therefore by their fruits ye shall know them.

See the chapter Copy

By their fruits ye shall know them. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?

And now I say unto you, Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will be overthrown:

Either make the tree good, and its fruit good; or make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by its fruit.

For each tree is known by its own fruit. For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes.

can a fig tree, my brethren, yield olives, or a vine figs? neither can salt water yield sweet.