¹⁶ You will ^[a](A)know them by their fruits. ^[b]Grapes are not gathered from thorn bushes nor figs from thistles, are they? ¹⁷ So ^(B)every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears bad fruit. ¹⁸ A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, nor can a bad tree produce good fruit.

^43 (A)For there is no good tree which produces bad fruit, nor, ^[a]on the other hand, a bad tree which produces good fruit. ^44 (B)For each tree is known by its own fruit. For men do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they pick grapes from a briar bush.

^4 (A)Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit ^[a]of itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me. ⁵ I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he ^(B)bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing. ⁶ If anyone does not abide in Me, he is ^(C)thrown away as a branch and dries up; and they gather them, and cast them into the fire and they are burned. ⁷ If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ^(D)ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.