Mat 7:20, 12:33, 2Pe 2:10-18, Jude 10-19 | ESV | STEP | Thus you will recognize them by their fruits .

a[See ver. 16 above]

Matthew 7:20

20 Thus you will recognize them ^aby their fruits.

Matthew 12:33

A Tree Is Known by Its Fruit

33 ^b“Either 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.

2 Peter 2:10-18

10 and especially ^dthose who indulge ^{▼▼Greek who go after the flesh} in the lust of defiling passion and ^fdespise authority.

Bold and willful, they do not tremble ^gas they blaspheme the glorious ones, 11 ^hwhereas angels, though greater in might and power, do not pronounce a blasphemous judgment against them before the Lord. 12 ⁱBut these, like irrational animals, ^jcreatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyed, blaspheming about matters of which they are ignorant, will also be destroyed in their destruction, 13 suffering wrong as ^kthe wage for their wrongdoing. They count it pleasure ^lto revel in the daytime. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions, ^{▼▼Some manuscripts love feasts} while ⁿthey feast with you. 14 They have eyes full of adultery, ^oinsatiable for sin. They entice unsteady souls. They have hearts ^ptrained in greed. ^qAccursed children! 15 Forsaking the right way, ^rthey have gone astray. They have followed ^sthe way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved ^tgain from wrongdoing, 16 but was rebuked for his own transgression; ^ua speechless donkey spoke with human voice and restrained the prophet’s madness.

17 ^vThese are waterless springs and mists driven by a storm. ^wFor them the gloom of utter darkness has been reserved. 18 For, ^xspeaking loud boasts of folly, they entice by sensual passions of the flesh those who are barely ^yescaping from those who live in error.

Jude 10-19

10 ^zBut these people blaspheme all that they do not understand, and they are destroyed by all that they, like unreasoning animals, understand instinctively. 11 Woe to them! For they walked in ^aathe way of Cain and abandoned themselves for the sake of gain ^abto Balaam’s error and ^acperished in Korah’s rebellion. 12 These are hidden reefs ^{▼▼Or are blemishes} ^aeat your love feasts, as they feast with you without fear, ^afshepherds feeding themselves; ^agwaterless clouds, ^ahswept along by winds; fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead, ^aiuprooted; 13 ^ajwild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of ^aktheir own shame; ^alwandering stars, ^amfor whom the gloom of utter darkness has been reserved forever.

14 It was also about these that Enoch, ^anthe seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, ^ao“Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of his holy ones, 15 ^apto execute judgment on all and to convict all the ungodly of all their deeds of ungodliness that they have ^aqcommitted in such an ungodly way, and of all ^arthe harsh things that ungodly sinners have spoken against him.” 16 These are grumblers, malcontents, ^asfollowing their own sinful desires; ^atthey are loud-mouthed boasters, ^aushowing favoritism to gain advantage.

A Call to Persevere

17 But you must ^avremember, beloved, the predictions of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ. 18 They ^{▼▼Or Christ, because they} said to you, ^ax“In the last time there will be scoffers, following their own ungodly passions.” 19 It is these who cause divisions, worldly people, ^aydevoid of the Spirit.