¹ tn Grk “the fruit of righteousness,” meaning righteous living as a fruit, as the thing produced.

² sn The statement illustrates the principle: That which cannot produce fruit does not produce fruit.

² tn Grk “that we might bear fruit to God.”

³ tn Heb “disaster on these people, the fruit of their schemes.”

² tn Heb “fruit” (so KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT).

¹ tn Heb “and the unripe, ripening fruit is maturing.”

³ tn Heb “for the fruit of their deeds they will eat.”

³ tn Heb “surely [there] is fruit for the godly.”

¹ tn Heb “the fruit of your womb” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV).

¹ tn Heb “the fruit of your womb” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV).

⁴ sn The statement nor are grapes picked from brambles illustrates the principle: That which cannot produce fruit, does not produce fruit.

² tn Heb “summer fruit.” “Summer fruit” is meaningless to most modern readers; dates and figs are what is involved.

¹ tn Heb “summer fruit.” “Summer fruit” is meaningless to most modern readers; dates and figs are what is involved.

² sn There is a tenacity that is a part of spiritual fruitfulness.

⁴ tn Grk “fruit,” which is figurative here for the child she would give birth to.

¹ tn Heb “fruit.” The following word “food” in the Hebrew text (אָכְלוֹ, ʾokhlo) appears to be an explanatory gloss to clarify the meaning of the rare word נִיב (niv, “fruit”; see Isa 57:19 Qere; נוֹב, nov, “fruit,” in Kethib). Cf. ASV “the fruit thereof, even its food.” In this cultic context the reference is to the offerings on the altar.

¹ tn Heb “on account of its inhabitants, because of the fruit of their deeds.”

⁴ tn Heb “your fruit is found in me”; cf. NRSV “your faithfulness comes from me.”

³ tn Heb “the trees of/in the field and the fruit of/in the ground.”

¹ tn Heb “labor,” which stands metonymically for the fruits of labor, either “monetary profit,” or “products.”