Matthew 7:16
You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grape clusters from thorns, or figs from thistles?
English Majority Text (NT)
In The King James Version
Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
In Context
17Thus every good tree produces good fruit, but a corrupt tree produces evil fruit.
Cross References
Matthew 12:33“Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or else make the tree corrupt and its fruit corrupt; for a tree is known by its fruit.
James 3:12It is not possible, my brothers, for a fig tree to produce olives, or a vine to produce figs, is it? Thus no spring is able to produce both salt and sweet water. 1 Wisdom from Above
Jude 1:10But these speak blasphemously of those things which they do not know; but what they do know naturally, like unreasoning animals, they are destroyed by these things.
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 →