Matthew 7:20

Julia E. Smith Translation 1876

Wherefore from their fruits shall ye know them.

See the chapter Copy

By their fruits shall ye know them. Far from it, do they gather grapes from thorns, or figs from caltrops

And now say I to you, Depart from these men, and leave them; for if this counsel or this work be of men, it shall be destroyed:

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.

For each tree is known by its own fruit. For of thorns they gather not figs, nor of the bramble do they harvest the grape.

The fig tree, my brethren, cannot make olives, or the vine, figs: so no fountain can make salt and sweet water.