Each tree is known by its own fruit. Men do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather grapes from a wild bush.
“Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or else make the tree corrupt and its fruit corrupt. For the tree is known by its fruit.
You will know them by their fruit. Do men gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles?
Therefore, by their fruit you will know them.
Can the fig tree, my brothers, bear olives, or a vine, figs? So no spring can yield both salt water and fresh water.
These are the ones who are stains on your love feasts as they feast with you irreverently and care only for themselves. They are clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, uprooted;