Luke 3:9 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

⁹ And even now the axe is also ready to chop down the trees at their roots [i.e., you Jews]. Every tree [i.e., person] that does not produce wholesome fruit [i.e., a godly life] will be cut down and thrown into the fire [i.e., the punishment of hell].”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ Even now the ax is laid to the root of the trees, so that every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and cast into the fire.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ And even now the axe also lieth at the root of the trees: every tree therefore that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.

Common English Bible

⁹ The ax is already at the root of the trees. Therefore, every tree that doesn’t produce good fruit will be chopped down and tossed into the fire.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ For even now the axe has been placed at the root of the trees. Therefore, every tree that does not produce good fruit shall be cut down and cast into the fire."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁹ For now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that bringeth not forth good fruit, shall be cut down and cast into the fire.

Luke 3:9 Cross References

Matthew 3:10

And even now the axe is ready to chop down the trees [i.e., you Jewish people]. Every tree [i.e., person] that does not produce wholesome fruit [i.e., godly, repentant lives] will be cut down and thrown into the fire [i.e., the final punishment of the wicked].

Matthew 7:19

Every tree that does not produce wholesome fruit should be chopped down and thrown into the fire.

Luke 13:6

Then He told them this parable: “A certain man had a fig tree [which had been] planted in his orchard. When he came looking for figs on it, he did not find any.

Luke 13:7

So, he said to the orchard worker, ‘Look, I have been coming [here] looking for figs for three years now, but have not found any. Cut down the tree, [for] why should it waste the space [i.e., by not producing]?’

Luke 13:9

And [then] if it begins to produce, fine; but if it does not, [then] you should cut it down.’”

John 15:6

If a person does not remain united to me, he will be thrown out as a [fruitless] branch and dried up. People gather up such branches and throw them into the fire to be burned [as fuel (?)].

Hebrews 10:28

The person who has disregarded the Law of Moses is put to death without being shown mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

Hebrews 12:29

for our God is truly a consuming fire.