Matthew 7:16 · KJV
“Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?”
— Matthew 7:16
Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.
Matthew 7 — Context
Because strait {is} the gate, and narrow {is} the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. {Because: or, How}
15Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
16Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
17Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.
18A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither {can} a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
Cross References
Luke 6:43-45
For a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit; neither doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
Matthew 12:33
Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by {his} fruit.
James 3:12
Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so {can} no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.
Matthew 7:20
Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
2 Peter 2:10-18
But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous {are they}, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities. {government: or, dominion}
Jude 1:10-19
But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.