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Gospel Reading - Beware of false prophets

¹⁵“Beware of false teachers who come disguised as harmless sheep, but are wolves and will tear you apart. ¹⁶You can detect them by the way they act, just as you can identify a tree by its fruit. You need never confuse grapevines with thorn bushes or figs with thistles. ¹⁷Different kinds of fruit trees can quickly be identified by examining their fruit. ¹⁸A variety that produces delicious fruit never produces an inedible kind. And a tree producing an inedible kind can’t produce what is good. ¹⁹So the trees having the inedible fruit are chopped down and thrown on the fire. ²⁰Yes, the way to identify a tree or a person^a is by the kind of fruit produced.

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