Matthew 7:16

The Scriptures 1998

“By their fruits you shall know them. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes or figs from thistles?

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My brothers, is a fig tree able to bear olives, or a grapevine figs? So neither is a fountain able to make salt and sweet water.

“Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or else make the tree rotten and its fruit rotten, for a tree is known by its fruit.

“So then, by their fruits you shall know them –

“As the proverb of the ancients says, ‘Wrong comes from the wrongdoer.’ But my hand is not against you.

Even a child is known by his deeds, Whether his work is clear and right.

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

But someone might say, “You have belief, and I have works.” Show me your belief without your works, and I shall show you my belief by my works.