Matthew 7:17-20

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. 19 bEvery tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20Thus you will recognize them cby their fruits.

Matthew 12:33

A Tree Is Known by Its Fruit

33 dEither make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree bad and its fruit bad, efor the tree is known by its fruit.

John 3:19-21

19 fAnd this is the judgment: gthe light has come into the world, and hpeople loved the darkness rather than the light because itheir works were evil. 20 jFor everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, klest his works should be exposed. 21But whoever ldoes what is true mcomes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.”

Ephesians 4:17-19

The New Life

17Now this I say and ntestify in the Lord, othat you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, pin the futility of their minds. 18They qare darkened in their understanding, ralienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to stheir hardness of heart. 19They thave become callous and uhave given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity.

2 Thessalonians 2:8-11

8And then vthe lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus wwill kill with xthe breath of his mouth and bring to nothing by ythe appearance of his coming. 9The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan zwith all power and false signs and wonders, 10and with all wicked deception for aathose who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. 11Therefore abGod sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe acwhat is false,

2 Timothy 3:8

8Just as adJannes and Jambres aeopposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, afmen corrupted in mind and agdisqualified regarding the faith.
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