 | Thomas Chalkley - Christian life - 1808 - 582 pages
...to whom I made the following answer. Let the rule of Christ determine this question : he says, " By their fruits ye shall know them ; do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles ?" Mat. vii. 16The fruits then of the Spirit of Christ are, love, faith, hope, patience,... | |
 | Martin Luther - Protestantism - 1824 - 586 pages
...works of the fash be manifest, which are, $c. This place is not unlike to this sentence of Christ, " by their fruits ye shall know them. Do men gather grapes of thorns or figs of brambles? So every good tree bringeth forth good fruit, and an evil tree bringeth forth evil... | |
 | Benjamin Beddome - Sermons - 1824 - 366 pages
...and doctrines by the fruits which they produce. When Christ speaks of false teachers, Fie says, By their fruits ye shall know them. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles ? Wicked men will at length betray them'selves, and so also will false doctrines.... | |
 | Samuel Stennett - Baptists - 1824 - 506 pages
...men, who, under pretence of extraordinary piety and goodness, attempt to deceive and mislead us. By their fruits ye shall know them. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles ? Even so, every good tree bringeth forth good fruit, but a corrupt tree bringeth... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1825 - 766 pages
...surely affect even a heart of stone. If the test of the Divine Teacher is to be depended on,—" By their fruits ye shall know them : do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles ?" — it cannot but be obvious, that the doctrines, of which, when received in the... | |
 | Martin Luther - Theology - 1826 - 586 pages
...of the flesh be manifest, which are, fyc. This place is not unlike to this sentence of Christ, " by their fruits ye shall know them. Do men gather , grapes of thorns or figs of brambles ? So every good tree bringeth forth good fruit, and an evil tree bringeth forth evil... | |
 | Martin Luther - 1826 - 1226 pages
...of the flesh be manifest, which are, 8$c. This place is not unlike to this sentence of Christ, " by their fruits ye shall know them. Do men gather grapes of thorns or figs of brambles ? So every good tree bringeth forth good fruit, and an evil tree bringeth forth evil... | |
 | Congregational churches - 1826 - 590 pages
...own clement," and would much rather resort to their own company. Accordingly, our Saviour says, "By their fruits ye shall know them. Do men gather grapes of thorns? or figs of thistles?" Such persons, in the parable of the sower, are represented as flourishing for a... | |
 | Esther Copley - Animals in the Bible - 1828 - 464 pages
...be supposed that effects will be produced of a nature opposite to the cause that excites them. " By their fruits ye shall know them : do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles ?" Matt. vii. 16. No : every tree and plant produces fruit according to its own nature.... | |
 | William Tyndale - 1831 - 570 pages
...Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing ; but are within ravening wolves. By their fruits ye shall know them. Do men gather grapes of thorns, either Jigs of briers ? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good Jruit ; but a corrupt tree bringeth... | |
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By their fruits ye shall know them. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles ? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but the corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. 
