²² Then the Lord God said: See! The man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil! Now, what if he also reaches out his hand to take fruit from the tree of life, and eats of it and lives forever?^(A)

⁷ “‘“Whoever has ears ought to hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the victor^[a] I will give the right to eat from the tree of life that is in the garden of God.”’^(A)

To Smyrna.^[b]

² down the middle of its street. On either side of the river grew the tree of life^[a] that produces fruit twelve times a year, once each month; the leaves of the trees serve as medicine for the nations.

¹⁴ Blessed are they who wash their robes so as to have the right to the tree of life and enter the city^[a] through its gates.^(A)