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A Tree and Its Fruit

43 “No good tree bears bad fruit, nor again does a bad tree bear good fruit;(A) 44 for each tree is known by its own fruit. For people do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they pick grapes from a bramble bush.(B) 45 The good person out of the good treasure of the heart produces good, and the evil person out of evil treasure produces evil, for it is out of the abundance of the heart that the mouth speaks.(C)

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12 The righteous flourish like the palm tree
    and grow like a cedar in Lebanon.(A)
13 They are planted in the house of the Lord;
    they flourish in the courts of our God.
14 In old age they still produce fruit;
    they are always green and full of sap,(B)

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