Therefore, by their fruit you will know them.
“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?
Each tree is known by its own fruit. Men do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather grapes from a wild bush.
Now I tell you, keep away from these men and leave them alone, because if this intention or this activity is of men, it will come to nothing.
Can the fig tree, my brothers, bear olives, or a vine, figs? So no spring can yield both salt water and fresh water.
