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15 Beware of false prophets, who come to you dressed as sheep, but inside they are devouring wolves.(A)

16 You will [a]fully recognize them by their fruits. Do people pick grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles?

17 Even so, every healthy (sound) tree bears good fruit [[b]worthy of admiration], but the sickly (decaying, worthless) tree bears bad (worthless) fruit.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 7:16 Marvin Vincent, Word Studies.
  2. Matthew 7:17 Hermann Cremer, Biblico-Theological Lexicon.

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