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.

make the good tree.

Matthew 23:26 Thou blind Pharisee, first make clean the inside of the cup and of the dish, that the outside may become clean.

Ezekiel 18:31 Cast away from you all your transgressions, by which you have transgressed, and make to yourselves a new heart, and a new spirit: and why will you die, O house of Israel?

Amos 5:15 Hate evil, and love good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be the Lord the God of hosts may have mercy on the remnant of Joseph.

Luke 11:39,40 And the Lord said to him: Now you, Pharisees, make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter: but your inside is full of rapine and iniquity. . . .

James 4:8 Draw nigh to God: and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners, and purify your hearts, ye double minded.

and his fruit good.

Matthew 3:8-10 Bring forth therefore fruit worthy of penance. . . .

Matthew 7:16-20 By their fruits you shall know them. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? . . .

Luke 3:9 For now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that bringeth not forth good fruit shall be cut down and cast into the fire.

Luke 6:43,44 For there is no good tree that bringeth forth evil fruit: nor an evil tree that bringeth forth good fruit. . . .

John 15:4-7 Abide in me: and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abide in the vine, so neither can you, unless you abide in me. . . .

James 3:12 Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear grapes? Or the vine, figs? So neither can the salt water yield sweet.