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

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.

“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.

For if you were cut off from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these natural branches be grafted back into their own olive tree?

Abraham ¹  planted a tamarisk tree ²  in Beer Sheba. There he worshiped the Lord, ³  the eternal God.

Whirring locusts ¹  will take over every tree and all the produce of your soil.

“So the trees said to the fig tree, ‘You come and be our king!’ ¹ 

The godly ¹  grow like a palm tree; they grow high like a cedar in Lebanon. ² 

Hope ¹  deferred ²  makes the heart sick, ³  but a longing fulfilled ⁴  is like ⁵  a tree of life.

For you will be like a tree whose leaves wither, like an orchard ¹  that is unwatered.

They will sprout up like a tree in the grass, ¹  like poplars beside channels of water.

All the trees of the field will know that I am the Lord. I make the high tree low; I raise up the low tree. I make the green tree wither, and I make the dry tree sprout. I, the Lord, have spoken, and I will do it!’”

Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

In the morning as they passed by, they saw the fig tree withered from the roots.

Peter remembered and said to him, “Rabbi, look! The fig tree you cursed has withered.”

Then ¹  he told them a parable: “Look at the fig tree and all the other trees. ² 

If the clouds are full of rain, they will empty themselves on the earth, and whether a tree falls to the south or to the north, the tree will lie wherever it falls.

a human face toward the palm tree on one side and a lion’s face toward the palm tree on the other side. They were carved on the whole temple all around;

The seed is still in the storehouse, isn’t it? And the vine, fig tree, pomegranate, and olive tree have not produced. Nevertheless, from today on I will bless you.’”