Matthew 7:16

New King James Version

You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles?

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Can a fig tree, my brethren, bear olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh.

“Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or else make the tree bad and its fruit bad; for a tree is known by its fruit.

Therefore by their fruits you will know them.

As the proverb of the ancients says, ‘Wickedness proceeds from the wicked.’ But my hand shall not be against you.

Even a child is known by his deeds, Whether what he does is pure and right.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

But someone will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without your works, and I will show you my faith by my works.