For there is no good tree which produceth fruit of a bad quality; neither doth a tree of a bad sort produce good fruit.

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

But now is the ax laid even to the root of the trees; every tree therefore that produceth not good fruit, is cut down and cast into the fire.

Every tree is known by its own peculiar fruit. For men do not gather figs from off thorns, nor do they gather from the bramble a bunch of grapes.