So then, you will recognize them by their fruit.
You will recognize them by their fruit. Grapes aren’t gathered from thorn bushes or figs from thistles, are they?
So now I tell you, stay away from these men and leave them alone. For if this plan or undertaking is of men, it will come to an end;
“Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree rotten and its fruit rotten; for the tree is known by its fruit.
Each tree comes to be known by its own fruit. For figs are not gleaned out of briars; neither are bunches of grapes gathered from thorn bushes.
My brothers and sisters, can a fig tree produce olives, or a vine produce figs? Neither can salt water produce fresh water.