Luke 13:9

World English Bible (2000)

If it bears fruit, fine; but if not, after that, you can cut it down.'"

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  • Ezra 9:14-15 : 14 shall we again break your commandments, and join in affinity with the peoples that do these abominations? Wouldn't you be angry with us until you had consumed us, so that there should be no remnant, nor any to escape? 15 Yahweh, the God of Israel, you are righteous; for we are left a remnant that has escaped, as it is this day. Behold, we are before you in our guiltiness; for none can stand before you because of this."
  • Ps 69:22-28 : 22 Let their table before them become a snare. May it become a retribution and a trap. 23 Let their eyes be darkened, so that they can't see. Let their backs be continually bent. 24 Pour out your indignation on them. Let the fierceness of your anger overtake them. 25 Let their habitation be desolate. Let no one dwell in their tents. 26 For they persecute him whom you have wounded. They tell of the sorrow of those whom you have hurt. 27 Charge them with crime upon crime. Don't let them come into your righteousness. 28 Let them be blotted out of the book of life, and not be written with the righteous.
  • Dan 9:5-8 : 5 we have sinned, and have dealt perversely, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even turning aside from your precepts and from your ordinances; 6 neither have we listened to your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land. 7 Lord, righteousness belongs to you, but to us confusion of face, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, who are near, and who are far off, through all the countries where you have driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against you. 8 Lord, to us belongs confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against you.
  • John 15:2 : 2 Every branch in me that doesn't bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
  • 1 Thess 2:15 : 15 who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out, and didn't please God, and are contrary to all men;
  • Heb 6:8 : 8 but if it bears thorns and thistles, it is rejected and near being cursed, whose end 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, saying, "Great and marvelous are your works, Lord God, the Almighty! Righteous and true are your ways, you King of the nations. 4 Who wouldn't fear you, Lord, and glorify your name? For you only are holy. For all the nations will come and worship before you. For your righteous acts have been revealed."
  • Rev 16:5-7 : 5 I heard the angel of the waters saying, "You are righteous, who are and who were, you Holy One, because you have judged these things. 6 For they poured out the blood of the saints and the prophets, and you have given them blood to drink. They deserve this." 7 I heard the altar saying, "Yes, Lord God, the Almighty, true and righteous are your judgments."

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    8 He answered, 'Lord, leave it alone this year also, until I dig around it, and fertilize it.

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    9 Even now the axe also lies at the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that doesn't bring forth good fruit is cut down, and thrown into the fire."

  • Matt 7:16-20
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    16 By their fruits you will know them. Do you gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles?

    17 Even so, every good tree produces good fruit; but the corrupt tree produces evil fruit.

    18 A good tree can't produce evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree produce good fruit.

    19 Every tree that doesn't grow good fruit is cut down, and thrown into the fire.

    20 Therefore, by their fruits you will know them.

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    10 "Even now the axe lies at the root of the trees. Therefore, every tree that doesn't bring forth good fruit is cut down, and cast into the fire.

  • John 15:4-6
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    4 Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can't 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. He who remains in me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

    6 If a man doesn't remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch, and is withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned.

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  • Matt 21:19
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    8 It was planted in a good soil by many waters, that it might bring forth branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a goodly vine.

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    33 "Either make the tree good, and its fruit good, or make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt; for the tree is known by its fruit.

  • Mark 11:13-14
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    13 Seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came to see if perhaps he might find anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs.

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    5 For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the flower becomes a ripening grape, he will cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and he will cut down and take away the spreading branches.

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    9 What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the farmers, and will give the vineyard to others.

  • Job 14:7-8
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    7 "For there is hope for a tree, If it is cut down, that it will sprout again, that the tender branch of it will not cease.

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    6 The Lord said, "If you had faith like a grain of mustard seed, you would tell this sycamore tree, 'Be uprooted, and be planted in the sea,' and it would obey you.

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    29 He told them a parable. "See the fig tree, and all the trees.

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    8 Others fell on good soil, and yielded fruit: some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.

    9 He who has ears to hear, let him hear."

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    7 Others fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.

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    2 When it was time, he sent a servant to the farmer to get from the farmer his share of the fruit of the vineyard.

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    19 It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and put in his own garden. It grew, and became a large tree, and the birds of the sky lodged in its branches."

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    16 His roots shall be dried up beneath. Above shall his branch be cut off.

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    33 He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive tree.

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    3 Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard, and gather in its fruits;

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