Luke 3:9

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The axe is already laid at the root of the trees, so every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.

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  • Matt 7:19 : 19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
  • Luke 13:9 : 9 If it bears fruit next year, fine! But if not, then cut it down.'
  • Luke 13:7 : 7 He said to the gardener, 'For three years I’ve been coming to look for fruit on this fig tree and haven’t found any. Cut it down! Why should it use up the soil?'
  • John 15:6 : 6 If anyone does not remain in me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned.
  • Matt 3:10 : 10 Even now the axe is laid at the root of the trees. Therefore, every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.
  • Heb 10:28 : 28 Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.
  • Heb 12:29 : 29 for our God is a consuming fire.
  • Isa 10:33-34 : 33 Behold, the Lord, the LORD of Hosts, will lop off the branches with terrifying power. The tall trees will be cut down, and the lofty ones will be humbled. 34 He will cut down the thickets of the forest with an axe, and Lebanon will fall by the Mighty One.
  • Ezek 15:2-4 : 2 Son of man, what is the wood of a vine compared to any other tree or the branch that is among the trees of the forest? 3 Is wood taken from it to make anything useful? Can one make a peg from it to hang any utensil on? 4 Look, it is put into the fire for fuel. The fire consumes both ends of it, and its middle is charred. Is it useful for anything?
  • Ezek 31:18 : 18 To whom can you be compared in glory and greatness among the trees of Eden? Yet you too will be brought down to the lower earth, lying among the uncircumcised, with those slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his hordes, declares the Lord GOD.
  • Dan 4:14 : 14 This decision is by the decree of the watchers and the sentence by the command of the holy ones, in order that the living may know that the Most High is sovereign over the kingdoms of men, and He gives them to whomever He will and sets the lowliest of men over them.
  • Dan 4:23 : 23 The command to leave the stump with its roots means that your kingdom will be restored to you when you acknowledge that Heaven rules.
  • Luke 23:29-31 : 29 For look, the days are coming when they will say, 'Blessed are the barren women, the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.' 30 Then they will say to the mountains, 'Fall on us!' and to the hills, 'Cover us!' 31 For if they do these things when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Matt 3:7-12
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    7But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, 'You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

    8Produce fruit in keeping with repentance.

    9And do not presume to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you that God is able to raise up children for Abraham from these stones.

    10Even now the axe is laid at the root of the trees. Therefore, every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.

    11I baptize you with water for repentance, but the one who is coming after me is more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

    12His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. He will gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.

  • Matt 7:16-20
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    16You will recognize them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?

    17In the same way, every good tree produces good fruit, but a bad tree produces bad fruit.

    18A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot produce good fruit.

    19Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

    20So then, you will recognize them by their fruits.

  • Luke 13:9
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    9If it bears fruit next year, fine! But if not, then cut it down.'

  • Luke 3:7-8
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    7John said to the crowds coming to be baptized by him, "You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?"

    8Produce fruit in keeping with repentance, and do not begin to say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our father.' For I tell you that God is able to raise up children for Abraham from these stones.

  • Luke 3:10
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    10The crowds were asking him, "What, then, should we do?"

  • Matt 12:33
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    33Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree bad and its fruit bad, for a tree is known by its fruit.

  • Luke 6:43-44
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    43No good tree bears bad fruit, nor does a bad tree bear good fruit.

    44Each tree is recognized by its own fruit. People do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they pick grapes from bramble bushes.

  • Luke 13:5-7
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    5No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way.

    6Then he told this parable: 'A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came looking for fruit on it but found none.'

    7He said to the gardener, 'For three years I’ve been coming to look for fruit on this fig tree and haven’t found any. Cut it down! Why should it use up the soil?'

  • John 15:1-2
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    1I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener.

    2He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful.

  • John 15:4-6
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    4Remain in me, as I also remain in you. Just as a branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, neither can you unless you remain in me.

    5I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever remains in me and I in him will bear much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

    6If anyone does not remain in me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned.

  • Matt 15:13
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    13He answered, “Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be pulled up by the roots.

  • Matt 21:19
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    19Seeing a lone fig tree by the road, he went to it, but found nothing on it except leaves. He said to it, 'May no fruit ever come from you again!' And immediately, the fig tree withered.

  • Isa 18:5
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    5For before the harvest, when the blossom is gone and the flower becomes a ripening grape, the branches will be cut with pruning knives, and the spreading branches will be removed and discarded.

  • Luke 3:17
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    17His winnowing fork is in his hand to thoroughly clear his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire."

  • Heb 6:8
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    8But if it bears thorns and thistles, it is worthless and near to being cursed, and its end is to be burned.

  • Matt 21:43
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    43Therefore I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people producing its fruit.

  • Luke 21:29
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    29Then he told them a parable: 'Look at the fig tree and all the trees.'

  • Matt 3:2
    73%

    2and saying, 'Repent, because the kingdom of heaven has come near.'

  • Mark 4:29
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    29As soon as the crop is ready, he sends for the sickle because the harvest has come.

  • Luke 23:31
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    31For if they do these things when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?

  • Isa 9:18
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    18By the wrath of the LORD Almighty, the land is scorched, and the people are like fuel for the fire; no one spares his brother.

  • Mark 12:9
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    9What then will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy those farmers, and give the vineyard to others.

  • Matt 13:42
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    42They will throw them into the blazing furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

  • Ezek 15:6
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    6Therefore, this is what the Lord GOD says: As the wood of the vine among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so have I given the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

  • Job 18:16
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    16His roots below will dry up, and his branches above will wither.

  • Jer 21:14
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    14I will punish you according to the fruit of your deeds, declares the LORD. I will kindle a fire in her forest, and it will consume everything around her.

  • Dan 4:14
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    14This decision is by the decree of the watchers and the sentence by the command of the holy ones, in order that the living may know that the Most High is sovereign over the kingdoms of men, and He gives them to whomever He will and sets the lowliest of men over them.

  • Mark 11:20
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    20Early in the morning, as they were passing by, they saw the fig tree withered from its roots.

  • Judg 9:10
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    10Then the trees said to the fig tree, 'You come and reign over us.'

  • Mark 9:45
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    45If your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life lame than to have two feet and be thrown into hell, where the fire never goes out.

  • Mark 4:7
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    7Other seed fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it, so it didn’t produce any grain.

  • Jer 10:3
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    3For the customs of the nations are worthless. They cut down a tree from the forest; it is shaped by the hands of a craftsman with a chisel.

  • Joel 1:7
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    7It has laid waste my vine and ruined my fig tree. It has stripped off their bark and thrown it away; their branches are made white.

  • Matt 13:50
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    50They will throw them into the blazing furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.