Matthew 7:20

Bible in Basic English 1965

So by their fruits you will get knowledge of them.

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By their fruits you will get knowledge of them. Do men get grapes from thorns or figs from thistles?

And now I say to you, Do nothing to these men, but let them be: for if this teaching or this work is of men, it will come to nothing:

Make the tree good, and its fruit good; or make the tree bad, and its fruit bad; for by its fruit you will get knowledge of the tree.

For every tree is judged by its fruit. Men do not get figs from thorns, or grapes from blackberry plants.

Is a fig-tree able to give us olives, my brothers, or do we get figs from a vine, or sweet water from the salt sea?