Matthew 7:16-18

16You will recognize them aby their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? 17So, bevery healthy tree bears good fruit, but the diseased tree bears bad fruit. 18A healthy tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a diseased tree bear good fruit.

Matthew 12:33-34

A Tree Is Known by Its Fruit

33 cEither make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree bad and its fruit bad, dfor the tree is known by its fruit. 34 eYou brood of vipers! How can you speak good, fwhen you are evil? gFor out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

Matthew 15:19

19For out of the heart come hevil thoughts, imurder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, jslander.
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