For each tree is known by its own fruit. For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes.
Either make the tree good, and its fruit good; or make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by its fruit.
By their fruits ye shall know them. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
Therefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
Can a fig tree, my brethren, yield olives, or a vine figs? neither can salt water yield sweet.
These are they who are hidden rocks in your love-feasts when they feast with you, shepherds that without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;