Matthew 7:20
Good News Translation
So then, you will know the false prophets by what they do.

New Revised Standard Version
Thus you will know them by their fruits.

Contemporary English Version
You can tell who the false prophets are by their deeds.

New American Bible
So by their fruits you will know them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Wherefore by their fruits you shall know them.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wherefore by their fruits you shall know them.

Matthew 7:16 By their fruits you shall know them. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?

Acts 5:38 And now, therefore, I say to you: Refrain from these men and let them alone. For if this council or this work be of men, it will come to nought:

Context
A Tree and its Fruit
19Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit, shall be cut down, and shall be cast into the fire. 20Wherefore by their fruits you shall know them. 21Not every one that saith to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven: but he that doth the will of my Father who is in heaven, he shall enter into the kingdom of heaven.…
Cross References
Matthew 7:16
By their fruits you shall know them. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?

Matthew 12:33
Either make the tree good and its fruit good: or make the tree evil, and its fruit evil. For by the fruit the tree is known.

Luke 6:44
For every tree is known by its fruit. For men do not gather figs from thorns: nor from a bramble bush do they gather the grape.

James 3:12
Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear grapes? Or the vine, figs? So neither can the salt water yield sweet.

Matthew 7:19
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