and specially those who walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise lordship. Bold are they, self-willed; they do not fear speaking injuriously of dignities:

But these, whatever things they know not, they speak railingly against; but what even, as the irrational animals, they understand by mere nature, in these things they corrupt themselves.

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For there is no good tree which produces corrupt fruit, nor a corrupt tree which produces good fruit;

Can, my brethren, a fig produce olives, or a vine figs? Neither can salt water make sweet water.

General references

Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.

By their fruits then surely ye shall know them.

For there is no good tree which produces corrupt fruit, nor a corrupt tree which produces good fruit;