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Illustration of a woman harvesting figs from a fig tree, a separate grapevine, and fruitless thorns outside the garden.
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Matthew 12:33-37

Known by Its Fruit

Mercy on the Sabbath and True Family · Matthew 12

Story guide: A woman harvesting figs from a fig tree, a separate grapevine, and fruitless thorns outside the garden. This shared image is not a scene-for-scene rendering of Matthew 12:33-37.

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33Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree rotten and its fruit rotten; for the tree is known by its fruit.

34Offspring of vipers, how can you speak good things when you are evil? For out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks.

35The good man brings out good things from his good treasure, and the evil man brings out evil things from his evil treasure.

36But I tell you that for every careless word that people speak, they will give an account on the day of judgment.

37For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.

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