“No good tree produces bad fruit, and no bad tree produces good fruit. Each tree is known by its own fruit. You don't pick figs from thornbushes. You don't harvest grapes from a briar.

“A good person brings good things out of the good stored up in their hearttranslateTextStored up in their heart (θησαυροῦ τῆς καρδίας)The “heart” in ancient Hebrew and Greek thought is not the seat of emotions but a storehouse — the accumulated character of a person, built over years of choices and habits. The “overflow” (περίσσευμα) is involuntary: speech reveals what you truly are, whether you intend it to or not. The mouth is not the problem. The storehouse is.. An evil person brings evil out of the evil stored up in theirs. The mouth speaks from whatever fills the heart.”