Luke 23:31

Authorized King James Version (1611)

‹For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry?›

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  • John 15:6 : 6 ‹If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast› [them] ‹into the fire, and they are burned.›
  • Prov 11:31 : 31 ¶ Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth: much more the wicked and the sinner.
  • Jer 25:29 : 29 For, lo, I begin to bring evil on the city which is called by my name, and should ye be utterly unpunished? Ye shall not be unpunished: for I will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, saith the LORD of hosts.
  • Ezek 15:2-7 : 2 Son of man, What is the vine tree more than any tree, [or than] a branch which is among the trees of the forest? 3 Shall wood be taken thereof to do any work? or will [men] take a pin of it to hang any vessel thereon? 4 Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire devoureth both the ends of it, and the midst of it is burned. Is it meet for [any] work? 5 Behold, when it was whole, it was meet for no work: how much less shall it be meet yet for [any] work, when the fire hath devoured it, and it is burned? 6 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; As the vine tree among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so will I give the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 7 And I will set my face against them; they shall go out from [one] fire, and [another] fire shall devour them; and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD, when I set my face against them.
  • Ezek 20:47-48 : 47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein. 48 And all flesh shall see that I the LORD have kindled it: it shall not be quenched.
  • Matt 3:12 : 12 Whose fan [is] in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.
  • Ezek 21:3-4 : 3 And say to the land of Israel, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I [am] against thee, and will draw forth my sword out of his sheath, and will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked. 4 Seeing then that I will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of his sheath against all flesh from the south to the north:
  • Dan 9:26 : 26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof [shall be] with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
  • Heb 6:8 : 8 But that which beareth thorns and briers [is] rejected, and [is] nigh unto cursing; whose end [is] to be burned.
  • 1 Pet 4:17-18 : 17 For the time [is come] that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if [it] first [begin] at us, what shall the end [be] of them that obey not the gospel of God? 18 And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
  • Jude 1:12 : 12 These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds [they are] without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

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  • 30 ‹Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and to the hills, Cover us.›

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  • Luke 3:9-10
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    9 And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: every tree therefore which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.

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  • Job 15:32-33
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    32 It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.

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    38 Then were there two thieves crucified with him, one on the right hand, and another on the left.

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  • 44 The thieves also, which were crucified with him, cast the same in his teeth.

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  • 2 For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.

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  • 6 ‹If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast› [them] ‹into the fire, and they are burned.›

  • 16 His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.

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  • 23 And the governor said, Why, what evil hath he done? But they cried out the more, saying, Let him be crucified.

  • 13 And now she [is] planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty ground.

  • 8 ‹And they took him, and killed› [him], ‹and cast› [him] ‹out of the vineyard.›

  • 10 For while [they be] folden together [as] thorns, and while they are drunken [as] drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.