Is the seed yet in the barn? Yes, the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree haven’t produced. From today I will bless you.’”
“For the seed of peace and the vine will yield its fruit, and the ground will give its increase, and the heavens will give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to inherit all these things.
For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! Grain will make the young men flourish, and new wine the virgins.
I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast its fruit before its time in the field,” says Yahweh of Armies.
“All nations shall call you blessed, for you will be a delightful land,” says Yahweh of Armies.
Accursed is their begetting. Because happy is the barren that is undefiled, She who has not conceived in transgression; She will have fruit when God visiteth souls.
For good labors have fruit of great renown; And the root of understanding can’t fail.
But the multiplying brood of the ungodly will be of no profit, And with bastard slips they will not strike deep root, Nor will they establish a sure hold.
Their branches will be broken off before they come to maturity, and their fruit will be useless, Never ripe to eat, and fit for nothing.
And if a man loves righteousness, The fruits of wisdom’s labor are virtues, For she teaches soberness and understanding, righteousness and courage; And there is nothing in life for men more profitable than these.
To fear the Lord is the fulness of wisdom; And she satiateth men with her fruits.
She will fill all her house with desirable things, And her garners with her produce.
You will eat up your leaves, and destroy your fruits, And leave yourself as a dry tree.
Come to her as one that plows and sows, And wait for her good fruits; For your toil will be little in the tillage of her, And you will eat of her fruits right soon.
The bee is little among such as fly; And her fruit is the chief of sweetmeats.
Her children will not spread into roots, And her branches will bear no fruit.
I was exalted like a palm tree on the sea shore, And as rose plants in Jericho, And as a fair olive tree in the plain; And I was exalted as a plane tree.
As the terebinth I stretched out my branches; And my branches are branches of glory and grace.
As the vine I put forth grace; And my flowers are the fruit of glory and riches.
Come to me, you⌃ that are desirous of me, And be you⌃ filled with my produce.
It is he that makes wisdom abundant, as Pishon, And as Tigris in the days of new fruits;
And I came out as a stream from a river, And as a conduit into a garden.
I said, I will water my garden, And will water abundantly my garden bed; And, behold, my stream became a river, And my river became a sea.
The fruit of a tree declares the husbandry thereof; So is the utterance of the thought of the heart of a man.
A wise man will instruct his own people; And the fruits of his understanding are trustworthy.
Hearken to me, you⌃ holy children, And bud forth as a rose growing by a brook of water:
As the flower of roses in the days of new fruits, As lilies at the waterspring, As the shoot of the frankencense tree in the time of summer:
As an olive tree budding forth fruits, And as a cypress growing high among the clouds.
And they tilled their land in peace, and the land gave her increase, and the trees of the plains their fruit.
And your children shall not be fruitful; for they have neglected my commandment to you, and done that which is evil before me.
For your help will I send my servants Esaias and Jeremy, after whose counsel I have sanctified and prepared for you twelve trees laden with various fruits,
And yet took you not away from them their wicked heart, that your law might bring forth fruit in them.
Ponder now by yourself, how great fruit of wickedness a grain of evil seed has brought forth.
and said, O Lord that bear rule, of all the woods of the earth, and of all the trees thereof, you have chosen you one vine:
and faith shall flourish, and corruption shall be overcome, and the truth, which has been so long without fruit, shall be declared.
For immediately there came forth great and innumerable fruit, and manifold pleasures for the taste, and flowers of inimitable color, and odors of most exquisite smell: and this was done the third day.
For the entrances of the greater world are wide and sure, and bring forth fruit of immortality.
And that there shall be showed a paradise, whose fruit endures without decay, wherein is abundance and healing, but we shall not enter into it,
O Lord, that are over us, suffer your servant, that we may pray before you, and give us seed to our heart, and culture to our understanding, that there may come fruit of it, whereby every one shall live that is corrupt, who bears the likeness of a man.
you have commanded that out of the parts of the body, that is to say, out of the breasts, be given milk, which is the fruit of the breasts,
Forasmuch as the husbandman’s seed, if it come not up, seeing that it has not received your rain in due season, or if it be corrupted through too much rain, so perishes;
For, behold, I sow my law in you, and it shall bring forth fruit in you, and you⌃ shall be glorified in it forever.
then say I to you, Just as you have brought forth with sorrow; even so the earth also has given her fruit, namely, man, ever since the beginning to him that made her.
O seven useless childbirths, and seven profitless periods of labor, and fruitless givings of suck, and miserable nursings at the breast.
And these my children, having arrived at maturity, their father died: blessed was he! for having sought out a life of fertility in children, he was not grieved with a period of loss of children.
Therefore produce fruit worthy of repentance!
“Even now the ax lies at the root of the trees. Therefore every tree that doesn’t produce good fruit is cut down, and cast into the fire.
By their fruits you will know them. Do you gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles?
Even so, every good tree produces good fruit; but the corrupt tree produces evil fruit.
A good tree can’t produce evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree produce good fruit.
Every tree that doesn’t grow good fruit is cut down, and thrown into the fire.
Therefore by their fruits you will know them.
“Either make the tree good, and its fruit good, or make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt; for the tree is known by its fruit.
When the sun had risen, they were scorched. Because they had no root, they withered away.
Others fell among thorns. The thorns grew up and choked them.
Others fell on good soil, and yielded fruit: some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.
For whoever has, to him will be given, and he will have abundance, but whoever doesn’t have, from him will be taken away even that which he has.
What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.
What was sown on the good ground, this is he who hears the word, and understands it, who most certainly bears fruit, and produces, some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.”
But when the blade sprang up and produced fruit, then the darnel weeds appeared also.
He set another parable before them, saying, “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field;
which indeed is smaller than all seeds. But when it is grown, it is greater than the herbs, and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in its branches.”
Seeing a fig tree by the road, he came to it, and found nothing on it but leaves. He said to it, “Let there be no fruit from you forever!” Immediately the fig tree withered away.
When the disciples saw it, they marveled, saying, “How did the fig tree immediately wither away?”
When the season for the fruit came near, he sent his servants to the farmers, to receive his fruit.
They told him, “He will miserably destroy those miserable men, and will lease out the vineyard to other farmers, who will give him the fruit in its season.”
“Therefore I tell you, God’s Kingdom will be taken away from you, and will be given to a nation producing its fruit.
“Now from the fig tree learn this parable. When its branch has now become tender, and produces its leaves, you know that the summer is near.
Immediately he who received the five talents went and traded with them, and made another five talents.
In the same way, he also who got the two gained another two.
He who received the five talents came and brought another five talents, saying, ‘Lord, you delivered to me five talents. Behold, I have gained another five talents besides them.’
For to everyone who has will be given, and he will have abundance, but from him who doesn’t have, even that which he has will be taken away.
Others fell on the rocky ground, where it had little soil, and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of soil.
When the sun had risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.
Others fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.
Others fell into the good ground, and yielded fruit, growing up and increasing. Some produced thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times as much.”
The farmer sows the word.
Others are those who are sown among the thorns. These are those who have heard the word,
and the cares of this age, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.
Those which were sown on the good ground are those who hear the word, and accept it, and bear fruit, some thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times.”
For whoever has, to him will more be given, and he who doesn’t have, even that which he has will be taken away from him.”
He said, “God’s Kingdom is as if a man should cast seed on the earth,
and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring up and grow, though he doesn’t know how.
For the earth bears fruit: first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear.
But when the fruit is ripe, immediately he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come.”
It’s like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, though it is less than all the seeds that are on the earth,
yet when it is sown, grows up, and becomes greater than all the herbs, and puts out great branches, so that the birds of the sky can lodge under its shadow.”
Seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came to see if perhaps he might find anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs.
Jesus told it, “May no one ever eat fruit from you again!” and his disciples heard it.
As they passed by in the morning, they saw the fig tree withered away from the roots.
When it was time, he sent a servant to the farmer to get from the farmer his share of the fruit of the vineyard.
But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and they both were well advanced in years.
She called out with a loud voice, and said, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb!
Therefore produce fruits worthy of repentance, and don’t begin to say among yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our father;’ for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones!
Even now the ax also lies at the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that doesn’t produce good fruit is cut down, and thrown into the fire.”
When they had done this, they caught a great multitude of fish, and their net was breaking.
For there is no good tree that produces rotten fruit; nor again a rotten tree that produces good fruit.
For each tree is known by its own fruit. For people don’t gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather grapes from a bramble bush.
Other seed fell on the rock, and as soon as it grew, it withered away, because it had no moisture.
Other fell amid the thorns, and the thorns grew with it, and choked it.












