Therefore by their fruits you will know them.
You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles?
And now I say to you, keep away from these men and let them alone; for if this plan or this work is of men, it will come to nothing;
“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.
For every tree is known by its own fruit. For men do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather grapes from a bramble bush.
Can a fig tree, my brethren, bear olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh.
