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Produce fruit in keeping with repentance.
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The ax is already at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.
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By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?
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Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit.
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A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit.
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Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
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Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them.
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“Make a tree good and its fruit will be good, or make a tree bad and its fruit will be bad, for a tree is recognized by its fruit.
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Seeing a fig tree by the road, he went up to it but found nothing on it except leaves. Then he said to it, “May you never bear fruit again!” Immediately the tree withered.
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When the harvest time approached, he sent his servants to the tenants to collect his fruit.
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“Therefore I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit.
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I tell you, I will not drink from this fruit of the vine from now on until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father’s kingdom.”
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Seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to find out if it had any fruit. When he reached it, he found nothing but leaves, because it was not the season for figs.
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Then he said to the tree, “May no one ever eat fruit from you again.” And his disciples heard him say it.
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At harvest time he sent a servant to the tenants to collect from them some of the fruit of the vineyard.
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“Truly I tell you, I will not drink again from the fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God.”
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Produce fruit in keeping with repentance. And do not begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham.
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The ax is already at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.”
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A Tree and Its Fruit
“No good tree bears bad fruit, nor does a bad tree bear good fruit.
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Each tree is recognized by its own fruit. People do not pick figs from thornbushes, or grapes from briers.
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Then he told this parable: “A man had a fig tree growing in his vineyard, and he went to look for fruit on it but did not find any.
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So he said to the man who took care of the vineyard, ‘For three years now I’ve been coming to look for fruit on this fig tree and haven’t found any. Cut it down! Why should it use up the soil?’
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If it bears fruit next year, fine! If not, then cut it down.’”
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At harvest time he sent a servant to the tenants so they would give him some of the fruit of the vineyard. But the tenants beat him and sent him away empty-handed.
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For I tell you I will not drink again from the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes.”
