⁴³ For no good tree gives bad fruit, and no bad tree gives good fruit.

⁴⁴ For every tree is judged by its fruit. Men do not get figs from thorns, or grapes from blackberry plants.

⁴⁵ The good man, out of the good store of his heart, gives good things; and the evil man, out of his evil store, gives evil: for out of the full store of the heart come the words of the mouth.

⁴⁶ Why do you say to me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?

¹² Put in the seed of righteousness, get in your grain in mercy, let your unploughed earth be turned up: for it is time to make search for the Lord, till he comes and sends righteousness on you like rain.

⁴ Be in me at all times as I am in you. As the branch is not able to give fruit of itself, if it is not still on the vine, so you are not able to do so if you are not in me.

⁵ I am the vine, you are the branches: he who is in me at all times as I am in him, gives much fruit, because without me you are able to do nothing.

⁶ If a man does not keep himself in me, he becomes dead and is cut off like a dry branch; such branches are taken up and put in the fire and burned.

¹⁰ Happy is the upright man! for he will have joy of the fruit of his ways.

²³ And not only so, but we who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we have sorrow in our minds, waiting for the time when we will take our place as sons, that is, the salvation of our bodies.

⁸ Here is my Father's glory, in that you give much fruit and so are my true disciples.

²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, a quiet mind, kind acts, well-doing, faith,

²³ Gentle behaviour, control over desires: against such there is no law.

²⁴ And those who are Christ's have put to death on the cross the flesh with its passions and its evil desires.

⁸ Let your change of heart be seen in your works:

⁴ In the same way, my brothers, you were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, even to him who came again from the dead, so that we might give fruit to God.

⁵ For when we were in the flesh, the evil passions which came into being through the law were working in our bodies to give the fruit of death.

⁶ But now we are free from the law, having been made dead to that which had power over us; so that we are servants in the new way of the spirit, not in the old way of the letter.

⁷ What then is to be said? is the law sin? in no way. But I would not have had knowledge of sin but for the law: for I would not have been conscious of desire if the law had not said, You may not have a desire for what is another's.

⁸ For you at one time were dark, but now are light in the Lord: let your behaviour be that of children of light

⁹ (Because the fruit of the light is in all righteousness and in everything which is good and true),

¹⁰ Testing by experience what is well-pleasing to the Lord;

¹¹ And have no company with the works of the dark, which give no fruit, but make their true quality clear;

¹⁷ But the wisdom which is from heaven is first holy, then gentle, readily giving way in argument, full of peace and mercy and good works, not doubting, not seeming other than it is.

¹⁸ And the fruit of righteousness is planted in peace for those who make peace.

²¹ What fruit had you at that time in the things which are now a shame to you? for the end of such things is death.

²² But now, being free from sin, and having been made servants to God, you have your fruit in that which is holy, and the end is eternal life.

²³ For the reward of sin is death; but what God freely gives is eternal life in Jesus Christ our Lord.

¹⁹ My fruit is better than gold, even than the best gold; and my increase is more to be desired than silver.