In old age they will still bear fruit; healthy and green they will remain,
Parallel translations
- WEB They will still produce fruit in old age. They will be full of sap and green,
- KJV They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing;
- NKJV They shall still bear fruit in old age; They shall be fresh and flourishing,
- NASB They will still yield fruit in advanced age; They will be full of sap and very green,
- NLT Even in old age they will still produce fruit; they will remain vital and green.
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Quick answer
The righteous keep bearing fruit even in old age, remaining fresh and green. God's grace sustains fruitfulness across an entire lifetime.
Overview
Unlike the world's pattern of decline, those rooted in God continue productive and vigorous to the end. Their enduring vitality testifies to the life-giving power of God rather than their own strength. This pictures the perseverance God grants His people, whom He keeps fruitful to the end through Christ (Philippians 1:6).
Cross-references & the web
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- Isa 46:4Even to your old age, I will be the same, and I will bear you up when you turn gray. I have made you, and I will carry you; I will sustain you and deliver you.
- Ps 71:18Even when I am old and gray, do not forsake me, O God, until I proclaim Your power to the next generation, Your might to all who are to come.
- Jer 17:8He is like a tree planted by the waters that sends out its roots toward the stream. It does not fear when the heat comes, and its leaves are always green. It does not worry in a year of drought, nor does it cease to produce fruit.
- Phil 1:11filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
- John 15:2–5He cuts off every branch in Me that bears no fruit, and every branch that does bear fruit, He prunes to make it even more fruitful.
- Job 17:9Yet a righteous one holds to his way, and the one with clean hands grows stronger.
- Ps 1:3He is like a tree planted by streams of water, yielding its fruit in season, whose leaf does not wither, and who prospers in all he does.
- Matt 3:10The axe lies ready at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.
- Prov 4:18The path of the righteous is like the first gleam of dawn, shining brighter and brighter until midday.
- Ezek 47:12Along both banks of the river, fruit trees of all kinds will grow. Their leaves will not wither, and their fruit will not fail. Each month they will bear fruit, because the water from the sanctuary flows to them. Their fruit will be used for food and their leaves for healing.”
- 1 Chr 29:1–30Then King David said to the whole assembly, “My son Solomon, the one whom God has chosen, is young and inexperienced. The task is great because this palace is not for man, but for the LORD God.
- Gal 5:22–23But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
- Jude 1:12These men are hidden reefs in your love feasts, shamelessly feasting with you but shepherding only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried along by the wind; fruitless trees in autumn, twice dead after being uprooted.
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