You will recognize them by their fruit. Grapes are not gathered from thorns or figs from thistles, are they?

But he said, ‘No, since in gathering the weeds you may uproot the wheat with them.

As the weeds are collected and burned with fire, so it will be at the end of the age.

He said, ‘An enemy has done this.’ So the slaves replied, ‘Do you want us to go and gather them?’

The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will gather from his kingdom everything that causes sin as well as all lawbreakers.

When it was full, they pulled it ashore, sat down, and put the good fish into containers and threw the bad away.

for each tree is known by its own fruit. For figs are not gathered from thorns, nor are grapes picked from brambles.

Let both grow together until the harvest. At harvest time I will tell the reapers, “First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned, but then gather the wheat into my barn.”’”