You will know them by their fruit; do men gather grapes from thorns or figs from thistles? No,
Can a fig tree, my brothers, bear olives? Or a vine, figs? No more can salt water yield fresh.
Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree rotten and its fruit rotten; for the tree is known by its fruit.
So you will know them by their fruit.
But the harvest of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, good temper, kindliness, generosity, fidelity,
Someone will object, 'And you claim to have faith!' Yes, and I claim to have deeds as well; you show me your faith without any deeds, and I will show you by my deeds what faith is!