Matthew 7:16
By their fruits you will know them. Are grapes gathered from thorns, or figs from thistles?
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
In Context
15But beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but within are ravenous wolves.
17So every good tree produces goodly fruit: but an unsound tree produces diseased fruit.
Cross References
Matthew 12:33Either make the tree good, and its fruit good; or make the tree unsound, and its fruit unsound. For by the fruit the tree is known.
James 3:12Can the fig-tree, my brethren, bear olives, or the vine, figs? So no fountain can produce salt water and fresh.
Jude 1:10But these speak evil of the things which they know not: and those things which they know naturally, as animals without reason, in these they corrupt themselves.
Matthew Henry on Matthew 7:16-21
The Sermon on the Mount. 15 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. 16 Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? 17 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. 19 Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. 20… Read the whole commentary →