Matthew 7:16
By their fruits ye shall know them. Do [men] gather a bunch of grapes from thorns, or from thistles figs?
Darby Translation
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, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but within are ravening wolves.
17So every good tree produces good fruits, but the worthless tree produces bad fruits.
Cross References
Matthew 12:33Either make the tree good, and its fruit good; or make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt. For from the fruit the tree is known.
James 3:12Can, my brethren, a fig produce olives, or a vine figs? Neither [can] salt [water] make sweet water.
Jude 1:10But these, whatever things they know not, they speak railingly against; but what even, as the irrational animals, they understand by mere nature, in these things 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 →