James 3:12

A fig tree, my brothers, cannot bear olives, or a grape-vine figs, can it? And a salt spring cannot furnish fresh water.

You must recognize them by their fruits. People do not pick grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles, do they?

"You must either make the tree healthy and its fruits healthy or make the tree sickly and its fruits sickly, for a tree is judged by its fruit.

"For there never is a healthy tree that bears poor fruit, nor a sickly tree that bears good fruit.

If the first handful of dough is consecrated, so is the whole mass; if the tree's root is consecrated, so are the branches.

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Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.

You must recognize them by their fruits. People do not pick grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles, do they?

"You must either make the tree healthy and its fruits healthy or make the tree sickly and its fruits sickly, for a tree is judged by its fruit.

"For there never is a healthy tree that bears poor fruit, nor a sickly tree that bears good fruit.

If the first handful of dough is consecrated, so is the whole mass; if the tree's root is consecrated, so are the branches.