A Tree and Its Fruit

⁴³ “For ^(A)no good tree bears bad fruit, nor again does a bad tree bear good fruit, ⁴⁴ for ^(B)each tree is known by its own fruit. For figs are not gathered from thornbushes, nor are grapes picked from a bramble bush. ^45 (C)The good person out of the good treasure of his heart produces good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure produces ^(D)evil, ^(E)for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.

Build Your House on the Rock

^46 (F)“Why ^(G)do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do what I tell you? ^47 (H)Everyone who comes to me and hears my words and does them, I will show you what he is like: ⁴⁸ he is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rock. And when a flood arose, the stream broke against that house and could not shake it, because it had been well built.^{[a] 49 (I)}But the one who hears and does not do them is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. When the stream broke against it, immediately it fell, and ^(J)the ruin of that house was great.”

My Help Comes from the Lord

A Song of ^(A)Ascents.