¹⁷ In the same way, every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears bad fruit.

A Tree and Its Fruit

⁴³ “No good tree bears bad fruit, nor again does a bad tree bear good fruit;^(A)

⁴⁴ for each tree is known by its own fruit. For people do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they pick grapes from a bramble bush.^(A)