A Tree and Its Fruit(A)

43 “No good tree bears bad fruit, nor does a bad tree bear good fruit. 44 Each tree is recognized by its own fruit.(B) People do not pick figs from thornbushes, or grapes from briers. 45 A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.(C)

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43  For gar it is eimi not ou a good kalos tree dendron that bears poieō bad sapros fruit karpos, nor oude again palin, a bad sapros tree dendron that bears poieō good kalos fruit karpos, 44 for gar each hekastos tree dendron is known ginōskō by ek · ho its idios own fruit karpos. For gar they do syllegō not ou gather syllegō figs sykon from ek thornbushes akantha, nor oude do they pick trygaō grapes staphylē from ek brambles batos. 45 The ho good agathos person anthrōpos out ek of the ho good agathos treasure thēsauros of his ho heart kardia produces propherō · ho good agathos, and kai the ho evil ponēros person out ek of his ho evil ponēros treasure produces propherō · ho evil ponēros, for gar out ek of the abundance perisseuma of the heart kardia his autos mouth stoma speaks laleō. · ho

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