But the axe is already lying at the roots of the trees. Any tree that fails to produce good fruit is going to be cut down and thrown into the fire.

Just so any sound tree bears good fruit, but a poor tree bears bad fruit.

No sound tree can bear bad fruit, and no poor tree can bear good fruit.

Any tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and burned.

"You must either make the tree sound and its fruit sound, or make the tree bad and its fruit bad; a tree is judged by its fruit.

It is the smallest of all seeds, but when it is grown it is the largest of plants and grows into a tree, so that the wild birds come and roost in its branches."

and seeing a fig tree by the roadside, he went up to it, but found nothing on it but leaves. And he said to it, "No more fruit shall ever grow on you!" And the fig tree withered up at once.

When the disciples saw it, they were amazed and said, "How did the fig tree come to wither up immediately?"

Jesus answered, "I tell you, if you have faith and have no doubt, you will not only do what I have done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, 'Get up and throw yourself into the sea,' it will be done.

"Let the fig tree teach you the lesson. As soon as its branches grow soft and put forth leaves, you know that summer is coming.

And he saw in the distance a fig tree covered with leaves, and he went up to it to see if he could find any figs on it. When he reached it he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the time for figs.

And he spoke to the tree and said to it, "May no one ever eat fruit from you any more!" And his disciples heard it.

In the morning as they were passing along, they saw that the fig tree was withered, to its very roots.

And Peter remembered about it and said to him, "Look, Master! The fig tree that you cursed is withered up!"

"Let the fig tree teach you the lesson. As soon as its branches grow soft and put forth leaves you know that summer is coming.

But the axe is already lying at the roots of the trees. Any tree that fails to produce good fruit is going to be cut down and thrown into the fire."

Every tree is known by its fruit. They do not pick figs off thorns, or gather grapes from brambles.

He used this figure: "A man had a fig tree growing in his garden, and he went to look for fruit on it, and could not find any.

And he said to the gardener, 'Here I have come three years to look for fruit on this fig tree, without finding any. Cut it down. Why should it waste the ground?'

It is like a mustard seed that a man took and dropped in his garden, and it grew and became a tree, and the wild birds roosted on its branches."

And the Master said, "If your faith is as big as a mustard seed, you might have said to this mulberry tree, 'Be pulled up by the roots and planted in the sea,' and it would have obeyed you!

So he ran on ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree, to see him, for Jesus was coming that way.

And he gave them an illustration: "See the fig tree and all the trees.

If the first handful of dough is consecrated, the whole mass is, and if the root of a tree is consecrated, so are its branches.

Christ ransomed us from the Law's curse by taking our curse upon himself (for the Scripture says, "Cursed be anyone who is hung on a tree")

Can a fig tree produce olives, my brothers, or a grape vine figs? A salt spring cannot give fresh water.

Let everyone who can hear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches. I will permit him who is victorious to eat the fruit of the tree of life that stands in the Paradise of God.'

the stars of the sky fell upon the earth just as a fig tree drops its unripe figs when it is shaken by a strong wind;

After that I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth holding back the four winds of the earth, so that no wind should blow on the earth or on the sea or on any tree.

They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any plant or tree, but only the men who did not have the mark of God's seal upon their foreheads.

and ran through the middle of the principal street of the city. On both sides of the river grew the tree of life. It bore twelve kinds of fruit, yielding a different kind each month, and its leaves were a cure for the heathen.

Blessed are those who wash their robes, so as to have the right to approach the tree of life and to enter the gates of the city.

and if anyone removes from this book any of the prophetic messages it contains, God will remove from him his share in the tree of life and the holy city which are described in this book.