Matthew 7:16-18

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

Matthew 7:20

So you can tell them by their fruit.

Matthew 12:33-34

"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.

Matthew 15:19

For out of the heart come wicked designs, murder, adultery, immorality, stealing, false witness, impious speech.

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Summary

As saith the proverb of the ancients, Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked: but mine hand shall not be upon thee.

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Wickedness

Matthew 7:16
You can tell them by their fruit. Do people pick grapes off thorns, or figs off thistles?
Matthew 12:33
"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.
Matthew 15:19
For out of the heart come wicked designs, murder, adultery, immorality, stealing, false witness, impious speech.

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Matthew 15:18
But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and they pollute a man.