for each tree is known by its own fruit. For figs are not gathered from thorns, nor are grapes picked from a bramble bush.
Can a fig tree, my brethren, yield olives, or a grapevine figs? No more can salt water yield fresh.
“Either make the tree good, and its fruit good; or make the tree bad, and its fruit bad; for the tree is known by its fruit.
These are blemishes on your love feasts, as they boldly carouse together, looking after themselves; waterless clouds, carried along by winds; fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead, uprooted;
You will know them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thorns, or figs from thistles?
Thus you will know them by their fruits.