Luke 3:9

KJV1611 – Modern English

And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: every tree therefore that does not produce good fruit is cut down and cast 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 And if it bears fruit, well: and if not, then after that you shall cut it down.
  • Luke 13:7 : 7 Then he said to the keeper of his vineyard, Look, for three years I have come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: cut it down; why does it use up the ground?
  • John 15:6 : 6 If anyone does not abide 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.
  • Matt 3:10 : 10 And now also the axe is laid to the root of the trees: therefore every tree which does not bring forth good fruit is cut down and cast into the fire.
  • Heb 10:28 : 28 Anyone who despised Moses' law 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, shall lop the bough with terror: and the high ones of stature shall be cut down, and the haughty shall be humbled. 34 And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by the Mighty One.
  • Ezek 15:2-4 : 2 Son of man, what is the vine tree more than any tree, or than a branch among the trees of the forest? 3 Shall wood be taken from it to do any work? Or will one take a peg from it to hang any vessel upon? 4 Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire consumes both ends of it, and the middle of it is burned. Is it fit for any work?
  • Ezek 31:18 : 18 Who are you thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? Yet you shall be brought down with the trees of Eden to the lower parts of the earth; you shall lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with those who are slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, says the Lord GOD.
  • Dan 4:14 : 14 He cried aloud, and said this, 'Cut down the tree, and cut off its branches, shake off its leaves, and scatter its fruit; let the beasts get away from under it, and the birds from its branches.
  • Dan 4:23 : 23 And as the king saw a watcher, a holy one, coming down from heaven and saying, 'Cut the tree down and destroy it; yet leave the stump of its roots in the earth, bound with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the beasts of the field, till seven times pass over him.
  • Luke 23:29-31 : 29 For indeed, the days are coming in which they will say, Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore, and the breasts which never nursed. 30 Then they will begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and to the hills, Cover us. 31 For if they do these things in the green wood, what will be done in the 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, O generation of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

    8Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance:

    9And do not think to say within yourselves, We have Abraham as our father: for I say to you, that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.

    10And now also the axe is laid to the root of the trees: therefore every tree which does not bring forth good fruit is cut down and cast into the fire.

    11I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he who comes after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to carry: he shall baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire:

    12His winnowing fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the barn; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.

  • Matt 7:16-20
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    16You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles?

    17Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit.

    18A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit.

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

    20Therefore, by their fruits you will know them.

  • Luke 13:9
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    9And if it bears fruit, well: and if not, then after that you shall cut it down.

  • Luke 3:7-8
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    7Then he said to the multitude that came forth to be baptized by him, O generation of vipers, who has warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

    8Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and do not begin to say within yourselves, We have Abraham as our father: for I say to you, That God is able out of these stones to raise up children to Abraham.

  • Luke 3:10
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    10And the people asked him, saying, What shall we do then?

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

  • Luke 6:43-44
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    43For a good tree does not bring forth corrupt fruit; neither does a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.

    44For every tree is known by its own fruit. For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor from a bramble bush do they gather grapes.

  • Luke 13:5-7
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    5I tell you, No: but unless you repent, you shall all likewise perish.

    6He also spoke this parable: A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came seeking fruit on it and found none.

    7Then he said to the keeper of his vineyard, Look, for three years I have come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: cut it down; why does it use up the ground?

  • John 15:1-2
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    78%

    1I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener.

    2Every branch in me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit, He prunes it, that it may produce more fruit.

  • John 15:4-6
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    4Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, no more can you, unless you abide in me.

    5I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in me, and I in him, the same brings forth much fruit, for without me you can do nothing.

    6If anyone does not abide 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.

  • Matt 15:13
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    13But he answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father has not planted, shall be rooted up.

  • Matt 21:19
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    19And when he saw a fig tree by the road, he came to it and found nothing on it but leaves, and said to it, Let no fruit grow on you ever again. And immediately the fig tree withered away.

  • Isa 18:5
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    5For before the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the branches.

  • Luke 3:17
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    17Whose winnowing fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge his threshing floor, and will gather the wheat into his barn; but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.

  • Heb 6:8
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    8But that which bears thorns and thistles is rejected, and is near to being cursed, its end is to be burned.

  • Matt 21:43
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    43Therefore I say to you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you and given to a nation producing its fruits.

  • Luke 21:29
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    29And he spoke to them a parable: Behold the fig tree and all the trees;

  • Matt 3:2
    73%

    2And saying, Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near.

  • Mark 4:29
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    29But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come.

  • Luke 23:31
    72%

    31For if they do these things in the green wood, what will be done in the dry?

  • Isa 9:18
    72%

    18For wickedness burns like the fire; it will devour the briers and thorns and will kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they will mount up like the lifting up of smoke.

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

  • Matt 13:42
    72%

    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 thus says the Lord GOD; Like 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.

  • Job 18:16
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    16His roots shall be dried up below, and above his branch shall be cut off.

  • Jer 21:14
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    14But I will punish you according to the fruit of your deeds, says the LORD: and I will kindle a fire in its forest, and it shall devour all things around it.

  • Dan 4:14
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    14He cried aloud, and said this, 'Cut down the tree, and cut off its branches, shake off its leaves, and scatter its fruit; let the beasts get away from under it, and the birds from its branches.

  • Mark 11:20
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    20And in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots.

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

  • Mark 9:45
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    45And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off; it is better for you to enter life lame, than having two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that shall never be quenched;

  • Mark 4:7
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    7And some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.

  • Jer 10:3
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    3For the customs of the people are vain: for one cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.

  • Joel 1:7
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    7He has laid my vine waste, and stripped my fig tree: he has made it bare and cast it away; its branches are made white.

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