Matthew 7:17-18

17So, aevery 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 bEither make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree bad and its fruit bad, cfor the tree is known by its fruit. 34 dYou brood of vipers! How can you speak good, ewhen you are evil? fFor out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

Matthew 15:19

19For out of the heart come gevil thoughts, hmurder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, islander.

Romans 6:23

23 jFor the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

2 Timothy 2:17-18

17and their talk will spread like gangrene. Among them are kHymenaeus and Philetus, 18who have swerved from the truth, lsaying that the resurrection has already happened. They are upsetting the faith of some.

2 Timothy 3:13

13while mevil people and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving and nbeing deceived.
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