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Matthew 7:16

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

You will know them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thorns, or figs from thistles?

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Even a child makes himself known by his acts, whether what he does is pure and right.

“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.

Thus you will know them by their fruits.

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

But some one will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from your works, and I by my works will show you my faith.

Can a fig tree, my brethren, yield olives, or a grapevine figs? No more can salt water yield fresh.

As the proverb of the ancients says, ‘Out of the wicked comes forth wickedness’; but my hand shall not be against you.