Matthew 7:16 Cross References - DouayRheims

¹⁶ By their fruits you shall know them. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?

²⁰ Wherefore by their fruits you shall know them.

³³ Either make the tree good and its fruit good: or make the tree evil, and its fruit evil. For by the fruit the tree is known.

⁴³ For there is no good tree that bringeth forth evil fruit: nor an evil tree that bringeth forth good fruit. ⁴⁴ For every tree is known by its fruit. For men do not gather figs from thorns: nor from a bramble bush do they gather the grape. ⁴⁵ A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth that which is evil. For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

¹² Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear grapes? Or the vine, figs? So neither can the salt water yield sweet.

¹⁰ And especially them who walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness and despise government: audacious, self willed, they fear not to bring in sects, blaspheming. ¹¹ Whereas angels, who are greater in strength and power, bring not against themselves a railing judgment. ¹² But these men, as irrational beasts, naturally tending to the snare and to destruction, blaspheming those things which they know not, shall perish in their corruption: ¹³ Receiving the reward of their injustice, counting for a pleasure the delights of a day: stains and spots, sporting themselves to excess, rioting in their feasts with you: ¹⁴ Having eyes full of adultery and of sin that ceaseth not: alluring unstable souls: having their heart exercised with covetousness: children of malediction. ¹⁵ Leaving the right way, they have gone astray, having followed the way of Balaam of Bosor who loved the wages of iniquity, ¹⁶ But had a check of his madness, the dumb beast used to the yoke, which, speaking with man's voice, forbade the folly of the prophet. ¹⁷ These are fountains without water and clouds tossed with whirlwinds, to whom the mist of darkness is reserved. ¹⁸ For, speaking proud words of vanity, they allure by the desires of fleshly riotousness those who for a little while escape, such as converse in error:

¹⁰ But these men blaspheme whatever things they know not: and what things soever they naturally know, like dumb beasts, in these they are corrupted. ¹¹ Woe unto them! For they have gone in the way of Cain: and after the error of Balaam they have for reward poured out themselves and have perished in the contradiction of Core. ¹² These are spots in their banquets, feasting together without fear, feeding themselves: clouds without water, which are carried about by winds: trees of the autumn, unfruitful, twice dead, plucked up by the roots: ¹³ Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own confusion: wandering stars, to whom the storm of darkness is reserved for ever. ¹⁴ Now of these Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying: Behold, the Lord cometh with thousands of his saints: ¹⁵ To execute judgment upon all and to reprove all the ungodly for all the works of their ungodliness, whereby they have done ungodly: and for all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against God. ¹⁶ These are murmurers, full of complaints, walking according to their own desires: and their mouth speaketh proud things, admiring persons, for gain's sake. ¹⁷ But you, my dearly beloved, be mindful of the words which have been spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ: ¹⁸ Who told you that in the last time there should come mockers, walking according to their own desires in ungodlinesses. ¹⁹ These are they who separate themselves, sensual men, having not the Spirit.