Matthew 3:8-10
3:8 Therefore produce fruit
that proves your
repentance,
3:9 and don’t think you can say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you that God can raise up children for Abraham from these stones!
3:10 Even now the ax is laid at
the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.
Matthew 7:16-20
7:16 You will recognize them by their fruit. Grapes are not gathered
from thorns or figs from thistles, are they?
7:17 In the same way, every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad
tree bears bad fruit.
7:18 A good tree is not able to bear bad fruit, nor a bad tree to bear good fruit.
7:19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
7:20 So then, you will recognize them by their fruit.
Luke 3:9
3:9 Even now the ax is laid at the root of the trees,
and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be
cut down and thrown into the fire.”
Luke 6:43-44
6:43 “For no good tree bears bad fruit, nor again does a bad tree bear good fruit,
6:44 for each tree is known by its own fruit. For figs are not gathered from thorns, nor are grapes picked from brambles.
John 15:4-7
15:4 Remain
in me, and I will remain in you.
Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself,
unless it remains
in
the vine, so neither can you unless you remain
in me.
15:5 “I am the vine; you are the branches. The one who remains in me – and I in him – bears much fruit, because apart from me you can accomplish nothing.
15:6 If anyone does not remain in me, he is thrown out like a branch, and dries up; and such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire, and are burned up.
15:7 If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you want, and it will be done for you.
James 3:12
3:12 Can a fig tree produce olives, my brothers and sisters,
or a vine produce figs? Neither can a salt water spring produce fresh water.