For every tree is judged by its fruit. Men do not get figs from thorns, or grapes from blackberry plants.

And he, from inside the house, would say in answer, Do not be a trouble to me; the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; it is not possible for me to get up and give to you?

For if they do these things when the tree is green, what will they do when it is dry?

He who goes in by the door is the keeper of the sheep.

But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, an olive-tree of the fields, were put in among them, and were given a part with them in the root by which the olive-tree is made fertile,

If in fact you gave ear to him, and were given teaching in him, even as what is true is made clear in Jesus: