“For ¹  no good tree bears bad ²  fruit, nor again ³  does a bad tree bear good fruit,

Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good morals.” ¹ 

In the same way, every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad ¹  tree bears bad fruit.

A good tree is not able to bear bad fruit, nor a bad tree to bear good fruit.

The Lord said to me, “What do you see, Jeremiah?” I answered, “I see figs. The good ones look very good. But the bad ones look very bad, so bad that they cannot be eaten.”

The lean, bad-looking cows ate up the seven ¹  fat cows.

He does not fear bad news. He ¹  is confident; he trusts ²  in the Lord.

Too bad for the wicked sinners! For they will get exactly what they deserve. ¹ 

Then ¹  seven other cows came up after them; they were scrawny, very bad-looking, and lean. I had never seen such bad-looking cows ²  as these in all the land of Egypt!

He must not replace or exchange it, good for bad or bad for good, and if he does indeed exchange one animal for another animal, then both the original animal ¹  and its substitute will be holy.

One basket had very good-looking figs in it. They looked like those that had ripened early. ¹  The other basket had very bad-looking figs in it, so bad they could not be eaten.

“Make a tree good and its fruit will be good, or make a tree bad ¹  and its fruit will be bad, for a tree is known by its fruit.

Dear friend, do not imitate what is bad but what is good. ¹  The one who does good is of God; the one who does what is bad has not seen God. ² 

The bad-looking, thin cows ate the seven fine-looking, fat cows. Then Pharaoh woke up.

All the days ¹  of the afflicted ²  are bad, ³  but one with ⁴  a cheerful heart has a continual feast. ⁵ 

Then that wealth was lost through bad luck; ¹  although he fathered a son, he has nothing left to give him. ² 

The human mind is more deceitful than anything else. It is incurably bad. ¹  Who can understand it?

Those both near and far from you will mock you, you with your bad reputation, ¹  full of turmoil.

But evil people and charlatans will go from bad to worse, ¹  deceiving others and being deceived themselves. ² 

“I, the Lord, also solemnly assert: ‘King Zedekiah of Judah, his officials, and the people who remain in Jerusalem ¹  or who have gone to live in Egypt are like those bad figs. I consider them to be just like those bad figs that are so bad they cannot be eaten. ²