Matthew 7:16-18
You shall know them by their fruits. Do the people gather the grape-bunches from thorns, or figs from thistles?
Matthew 7:20
Therefore you shall know them perfectly by their fruits.
Matthew 12:33-34
Either make the tree good, and its fruit good; or make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by the fruit.
Matthew 15:19
For out of the heart proceed evil reasonings, murders, fornications, adulteries, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies.
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As saith the proverb of the ancients, Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked: but mine hand shall not be upon thee.
Wickedness
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Wickedness
Matthew 7:16
You shall know them by their fruits. Do the people gather the grape-bunches from thorns, or figs from thistles?
Matthew 12:33
Either make the tree good, and its fruit good; or make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by the fruit.
Matthew 15:19
For out of the heart proceed evil reasonings, murders, fornications, adulteries, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies.
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Matthew 15:18
But those things going out from the mouth come forth from the heart; and these pollute the man.