And if it bear fruit, well: and if not, then after that you shall cut it down.
Every branch in me that bears not fruit he takes away: and every branch that bears fruit, he purges it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
But that which bears thorns and briers is rejected, and is near to cursing; whose end is to be burned.
Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:
And he answering said to him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it:
And he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath.