Then produce fruit that will be consistent with your professed repentance!

But the axe is already lying at the roots of the trees. Any tree that fails to produce good fruit is going to be cut down and thrown into the fire.

You can tell them by their fruit. Do people pick grapes off thorns, or figs off thistles?

Just so any sound tree bears good fruit, but a poor tree bears bad fruit.

No sound tree can bear bad fruit, and no poor tree can bear good fruit.

Any tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and burned.

So you can tell them by their fruit.

"You must either make the tree sound and its fruit sound, or make the tree bad and its fruit bad; a tree is judged by its fruit.

and seeing a fig tree by the roadside, he went up to it, but found nothing on it but leaves. And he said to it, "No more fruit shall ever grow on you!" And the fig tree withered up at once.

"That, I tell you, is why the Kingdom of God will be taken away from you, and given to a people that will produce its proper fruit.

And he spoke to the tree and said to it, "May no one ever eat fruit from you any more!" And his disciples heard it.

Then produce fruit that will be consistent with your professed repentance! And do not begin to say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham for our forefather,' for I tell you, God can produce descendants for Abraham right out of these stones!

But the axe is already lying at the roots of the trees. Any tree that fails to produce good fruit is going to be cut down and thrown into the fire."

For sound trees do not bear bad fruit, nor bad trees sound fruit.

Every tree is known by its fruit. They do not pick figs off thorns, or gather grapes from brambles.

He used this figure: "A man had a fig tree growing in his garden, and he went to look for fruit on it, and could not find any.

And he said to the gardener, 'Here I have come three years to look for fruit on this fig tree, without finding any. Cut it down. Why should it waste the ground?'

perhaps it will bear fruit next year. But if it does not, you can have it cut down.' "

When Jesus saw her he called to her, "You are freed from your sickness!"

Any branch of mine that does not bear fruit he trims away, and he prunes every branch that bears fruit, to make it bear more.

You must remain united to me and I will remain united to you. Just as no branch can bear fruit by itself unless it remains united to the vine, you cannot unless you remain united to me.

It was not you who chose me, it is I that have chosen you, and appointed you to go and bear fruit??ruit that shall be lasting, so that the Father may grant you whatever you ask him for as my followers.

and so you have been freed from sin, and made slaves of uprightness.

But now that you have been freed from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit you get is consecration, and the final result is eternal life.

So you, in turn, my brothers, in the body of Christ have become dead as far as the Law is concerned, so that you may belong to another husband, who was raised from the dead in order that we might bear fruit for God.

For when we were living mere physical lives the sinful passions, awakened by the Law, operated through the organs of our bodies to make us bear fruit for death.

For the life-giving law of the Spirit through Christ Jesus has freed you from the Law of sin and death.

This is the freedom with which Christ has freed us. So stand firm in it, and do not get under a yoke of slavery again.

But if living on here means having my labor bear fruit, I cannot tell which to choose.

came among you, to thrive and bear its fruit among you, as it does all over the world, from the time when you first heard about the mercy of God,

For our appeal does not rest on a delusion, nor spring from any impure motive; there is no fraud about it.

They are stains on your religious meals, where they carouse together, boldly attending to no one but themselves; rainless clouds driven before the wind; leafless trees without fruit, doubly dead, and uprooted;

Let everyone who can hear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches. I will permit him who is victorious to eat the fruit of the tree of life that stands in the Paradise of God.'

So the angel swung his sickle on the earth and gathered the fruit of the earth's vine, and flung them into the great winepress of God's wrath.

The fruit of your soul's desire is gone, your luxury and splendor have perished, and people will never find them again.

and ran through the middle of the principal street of the city. On both sides of the river grew the tree of life. It bore twelve kinds of fruit, yielding a different kind each month, and its leaves were a cure for the heathen.