Matthew 7:16
Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
Context
This verse from Matthew Chapter 7 connects to 9 cross-references. The Sermon on the Mount concludes: do not judge lest you be judged, ask and it will be given, the narrow gate leads to life while the broad road leads to destruction. Trees are known by their fruit; not everyone …
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By their fruits ye shall know them. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
From their fruits ye shall know them; do <FI>men<Fi> gather from thorns grapes? or from thistles figs?
By their fruits you will get knowledge of them. Do men get grapes from thorns or figs from thistles?
Querverweise
Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for …
For a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit; neither doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil …
Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt …
But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, …
For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, …
But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in …
These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.