These are the two olive trees, and the two lamps, which stand before the Lord of the earth.

For if you have been cut from an olive wild by nature, and grafted contrary to nature into a good olive, how much more shall they according to nature be grafted into their own olive.

But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them and became a partaker of the root and excellence of the olive,

Can a fig tree, my brothers, produce olives, or a vine, figs? So you cannot make salt water sweet.

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

So every good tree bears good fruits, but a bad tree bears bad fruits;

a good tree cannot bear bad fruits, nor a bad tree good fruits.

and seeing a fig tree by the way he went to it, and found nothing on it, except leaves only, and he said to it, Let there be no fruit on you forever. And the fig tree immediately withered,

For there is no good tree which bears bad fruit, nor, again, a bad tree which bears good fruit.

In the midst of its broad plain and along the river on each side was the tree of life, bearing twelve fruits, and yielding monthly each of its fruits, and the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.

And already also the axe lies at the root of the trees; every tree therefore which bears not good fruit, is cut down and cast into the fire.

And he spoke to them a parable; See the fig tree and all the trees;

and already the axe lies at the root of the trees; every tree, therefore, which bears not good fruit is cut down and cast into the fire.