Luke 13:9

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Then if it bears fruit next year, very well, but if not, you can cut it down.’”

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  • Ezra 9:14-15 : 14 Shall we once again break your commandments and intermarry with these abominable peoples? Would you not be so angered by us that you would wipe us out, with no survivor or remnant? 15 O LORD God of Israel, you are righteous, for we are left as a remnant this day. Indeed, we stand before you in our guilt. However, because of this guilt no one can really stand before you.”
  • Ps 69:22-28 : 22 May their dining table become a trap before them! May it be a snare for that group of friends! 23 May their eyes be blinded! Make them shake violently! 24 Pour out your judgment on them! May your raging anger overtake them! 25 May their camp become desolate, their tents uninhabited! 26 For they harass the one whom you discipline; they spread the news about the suffering of those whom you punish. 27 Hold them accountable for all their sins! Do not vindicate them! 28 May their names be deleted from the scroll of the living! Do not let their names be listed with the godly!
  • Dan 9:5-8 : 5 we have sinned! We have done what is wrong and wicked; we have rebelled by turning away from your commandments and standards. 6 We have not paid attention to your servants the prophets, who spoke by your authority to our kings, our leaders, and our ancestors, and to all the inhabitants of the land as well. 7 “You are righteous, O Lord, but we are humiliated this day– the people of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all Israel, both near and far away in all the countries in which you have scattered them, because they have behaved unfaithfully toward you. 8 O LORD, we have been humiliated– our kings, our leaders, and our ancestors– because we have sinned against you.
  • John 15:2 : 2 He takes away every branch that does not bear fruit in me. He prunes every branch that bears fruit so that it will bear more fruit.
  • 1 Thess 2:15 : 15 who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets and persecuted us severely. They are displeasing to God and are opposed to all people,
  • Heb 6:8 : 8 But if it produces thorns and thistles, it is useless and about to be cursed; its fate is to be burned.
  • Rev 15:3-4 : 3 They sang the song of Moses the servant of God and the song of the Lamb:“Great and astounding are your deeds, Lord God, the All-Powerful! Just and true are your ways, King over the nations! 4 Who will not fear you, O Lord, and glorify your name, because you alone are holy? All nations will come and worship before you for your righteous acts have been revealed.”
  • Rev 16:5-7 : 5 Now I heard the angel of the waters saying:“You are just– the one who is and who was, the Holy One– because you have passed these judgments, 6 because they poured out the blood of your saints and prophets, so you have given them blood to drink. They got what they deserved!” 7 Then I heard the altar reply,“Yes, Lord God, the All-Powerful, your judgments are true and just!”

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    6Warning to Israel to Bear Fruit Then Jesus told this parable:“A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came looking for fruit on it and found none.

    7So he said to the worker who tended the vineyard,‘For three years now, I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and each time I inspect it I find none. Cut it down! Why should it continue to deplete the soil?’

    8But the worker answered him,‘Sir, leave it alone this year too, until I dig around it and put fertilizer on it.

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    9Even now the ax is laid at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.”

  • Matt 7:16-20
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    16You will recognize them by their fruit. Grapes are not gathered from thorns or figs from thistles, are they?

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

    18A good tree is not able to bear bad fruit, nor a bad tree to bear 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 fruit.

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

    5“I am the vine; you are the branches. The one who remains in me– and I in him– bears much fruit, because apart from me you can accomplish nothing.

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

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  • Matt 21:19
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    9“‘Say to them: This is what the Sovereign LORD says:“‘Will it prosper? Will he not rip out its roots and cause its fruit to rot and wither? All its foliage will wither. No strong arm or large army will be needed to pull it out by its roots.

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    33Trees and Their Fruit“Make a tree good and its fruit will be good, or make a tree bad and its fruit will be bad, for a tree is known by its fruit.

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    13After noticing in the distance a fig tree with leaves, he went to see if he could find any fruit on it. When he came to it he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs.

    14He said to it,“May no one ever eat fruit from you again.” And his disciples heard it.

  • Isa 18:5
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    5For before the harvest, when the bud has sprouted, and the ripening fruit appears, he will cut off the unproductive shoots with pruning knives; he will prune the tendrils.

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    9What then will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy those tenants and give the vineyard to others.

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    43“For no good tree bears bad fruit, nor again does a bad tree bear good fruit,

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    29And when the grain is ripe, he sends in the sickle because the harvest has come.”

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    29But he said,‘No, since in gathering the darnel you may uproot the wheat along with it.

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    8But other seeds fell on good soil and produced grain, some a hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.

    9The one who has ears had better listen!”

  • Mark 4:7
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    7Other seed fell among the thorns, and they grew up and choked it, and it did not produce grain.

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    2At harvest time he sent a slave to the tenants to collect from them his portion of the crop.

  • Luke 13:19
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    19It is like a mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his garden. It grew and became a tree, and the wild birds nested in its branches.”

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    8But if it produces thorns and thistles, it is useless and about to be cursed; its fate is to be burned.

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  • Job 18:16
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    16Below his roots dry up, and his branches wither above.

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    4What more can I do for my vineyard beyond what I have already done? When I waited for it to produce edible grapes, why did it produce sour ones instead?

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    24I tell you the solemn truth, unless a kernel of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains by itself alone. But if it dies, it produces much grain.

  • Luke 8:9
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    9Then his disciples asked him what this parable meant.

  • Matt 21:34
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    34When the harvest time was near, he sent his slaves to the tenants to collect his portion of the crop.

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    33Like a vine he will let his sour grapes fall, and like an olive tree he will shed his blossoms.

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    45If your foot causes you to sin, cut it off! It is better to enter life lame than to have two feet and be thrown into hell.

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    20The Withered Fig Tree In the morning as they passed by, they saw the fig tree withered from the roots.

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    41They said to him,“He will utterly destroy those evil men! Then he will lease the vineyard to other tenants who will give him his portion at the harvest.”

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    3Six years you may sow your field, and six years you may prune your vineyard and gather the produce,

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    28The Parable of the Fig Tree“Learn this parable from the fig tree: Whenever its branch becomes tender and puts out its leaves, you know that summer is near.