They will still yield fruit in advanced age; They will be full of sap and very green,
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;
- BSB In old age they will still bear fruit; healthy and green they will remain,
- NKJV They shall still bear fruit in old age; They shall be fresh and flourishing,
- 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).
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Cross-references · 13
- Isa 46:4Even to old age I am he, and even to gray hairs I will carry you. I have made, and I will bear. Yes, I will carry, and will deliver.
- Ps 71:18Yes, even when I am old and gray-haired, God, don’t forsake me, until I have declared your strength to the next generation, your might to everyone who is to come.
- Jer 17:8For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, who spreads out its roots by the river, and shall not fear when heat comes, but its leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
- Phil 1:11being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
- John 15:2–5Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
- Job 17:9Yet shall the righteous hold on his way. He who has clean hands shall grow stronger and stronger.
- Ps 1:3He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that produces its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. Whatever he does shall prosper.
- Matt 3:10“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.
- Prov 4:18But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light, that shines more and more until the perfect day.
- Ezek 47:12By the river on its bank, on this side and on that side, shall grow every tree for food, whose leaf shall not wither, neither shall its fruit fail: it shall produce new fruit every month, because its waters issue out of the sanctuary; and its fruit shall be for food, and its leaf for healing.
- 1 Chr 29:1–30David the king said to all the assembly, “Solomon my son, whom alone God has chosen, is yet young and tender, and the work is great; for the palace is not for man, but for Yahweh God.
- Gal 5:22–23But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,
- Jude 1:12These are hidden rocky reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you, shepherds who without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
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