But these men revile the things which they do not understand; and the things which they know by instinct, like unreasoning animals, by these things they are destroyed.

Do

For there is no good tree which produces bad fruit, nor, on the other hand, a bad tree which produces good fruit.

Can a fig tree, my brethren, produce olives, or a vine produce figs? Nor can salt water produce fresh.

General references

It is by his deeds that a lad

distinguishes himself

If his conduct is pure and right.

So then, you will know them by their fruits.

For there is no good tree which produces bad fruit, nor, on the other hand, a bad tree which produces good fruit.