For a good tree doth not produce worthless fruit, neither again doth, a worthless tree, produce good fruit.

And, already, even the axe, unto the root of the trees is being laid; every tree, therefore, not bringing forth goodfruit, is to be hewn down, and, into fire, to be cast.

And he spake a parable unto them: See the fig-tree, and all the trees, -

For, every tree, by its own fruit, becometh known. For not, of thorns, do they gather figs, neither, of a bramble-bush, do they gather, a bunch of grapes.