Matthew 7:16

World Messianic Bible British Edition

By their fruits you will know them. Do you gather grapes from thorns or figs from thistles?

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Even a child makes himself known by his doings, whether his work is pure, and whether it is right.

“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.

Therefore by their fruits you will know them.

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

Yes, a man will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without works, and I will show you my faith by my works.

Can a fig tree, my brothers, yield olives, or a vine figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh water.

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