Thus you will know them by their fruits.
You will know them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thorns, or figs from thistles?
So in the present case I tell you, keep away from these men and let them alone; for if this plan or this undertaking is of men, it will fail;
“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.
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.