Matthew 7:16 Cross References - Thomson

¹⁶ By their fruits you may know them. Are grapes gathered from thorns? Or figs from thistles?

²⁰ So then by their fruits you will know them.

³³ Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree bad, and its fruit bad. For the tree is known by its fruit

⁴³ That indeed is not a good tree which beareth bad fruit; nor is that a bad tree which beareth good fruit. ⁴⁴ For every tree is known by its own fruit. For figs are not gathered from thorns; nor grapes from a bramble bush. ⁴⁵ The good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good. And the bad man out of the bad treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is bad. For from the overflowing of the heart the mouth speaketh.

¹⁰ and more especially them who go after flesh, in the lust of uncleanness, and despise authority. Being audacious, and self sufficient they tremble not when they revile glories; ¹¹ whereas angels who are greater in might and power, do not bring against them a railing accusation before the Lord. ¹² But these, like irrational brute beasts, made for capture and destruction, railing at what they are ignorant of, shall perish with their own destruction. 13 Receiving wages of iniquity, esteeming riot by day a pleasure; being spots and blemishes; rioting by their deceits; banquetting with you;

¹⁴ having eyes full of adultery and unceasing sin; ensnaring unstable souls; having a heart practised in greediness; an execrable race; ¹⁵ having forsaken the right road they have gone quite astray, following the way of Balaam son of Bosor, who loved the wages of iniquity, ¹⁶ and was convicted of his transgression. [A dumb beast, speaking with a human voice, restrained the madness of the prophet.] ¹⁷ They are wells without water; clouds impelled by a whirlwind, for whom is reserved in the bowels of the earth the gloom of everlasting darkness. ¹⁸ For uttering, with a solemn tone, swelling words of vanity, they by the lusts of the flesh. by acts of lasciviousness, ensnare them who are indeed flying from those conversant in error;

¹⁰ but these rail at what they do not know; and what they do know in a natural way as irrational animals, with these they corrupt themselves. ¹¹ Alas for them! For they have gone in the way of Cain, and rambled in the error of Balaam's reward and perished in the rebellion of Kore. ¹² They are hidden rocks in your love feasts. When they feast with you, they feed themselves without restraint. They are clouds without water, impelled by winds; autumnal trees without fruit, twice dead, and to be rooted up; ¹³ raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom is reserved the gloom of everlasting darkness. ¹⁴ Now to such as these Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, "Behold the Lord is coming with his holy myriads ¹⁵ to execute judgment on all, and to convict all the wicked among them of all their impious deeds, which they have impiously committed, and of all the bitter things which impious sinners have uttered against him." ¹⁶ They are discontented mumurers, walking after their own lusts. Though their mouth speaketh swelling words, they hold persons in admiration for the sake of gain. ¹⁷ But as for you, beloved, remember what the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ foretold you. ¹⁸ For they assured you that in the last time there would be scoffers, walking after their own wicked desires. ¹⁹ These are they who separate themselves, being sensual, and not having the spirit.