The Lord God caused to grow out of the ground every tree pleasing in appearance and good for food, including the tree of life in the middle of the garden,(A) as well as the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.(B)

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30 The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life,(A)
but violence[a] takes lives.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 11:30 LXX, Syr; MT reads but a wise one

12 Delayed hope makes the heart sick,
but fulfilled desire is a tree of life.(A)

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The tongue that heals is a tree of life,(A)
but a devious tongue[a] breaks the spirit.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 15:4 Lit but crookedness in it

“Anyone who has an ear should listen to what the Spirit says to the churches. I will give the victor(A) the right to eat from the tree of life, which is in[a] God’s paradise.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. Revelation 2:7 Other mss read in the midst of

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