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

“Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree bad and its fruit bad; for the tree is known by its fruit.

For there is no good tree which produces bad fruit, nor, on the other hand, a bad tree which produces good fruit.

So every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears bad fruit.

A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, nor can a bad tree produce good fruit.

Seeing a lone fig tree by the road, He came to it and found nothing on it except leaves only; and He *said to it, “No longer shall there ever be any fruit from you.” And at once the fig tree withered.

in the middle of its street. On either side of the river was the tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit every month; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

Indeed the axe is already laid at the root of the trees; so every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.”

Then He told them a parable: “Behold the fig tree and all the trees;

The axe is already laid at the root of the trees; therefore every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.