And, indeed, it should bear fruit. But if not, in the future, you shall cut it down.' "
Now he was teaching in their synagogue on the Sabbaths.
But in response, he said to him: 'Lord, let it be for this year also, during which time I will dig around it and add fertilizer.
Every branch in me that does not bear fruit, he will take away. And each one that does bear fruit, he will cleanse, so that it may bring forth more fruit.
who also killed both the Lord Jesus, and the Prophets, and who have persecuted us. But they do not please God, and so they are adversaries to all men.
But whatever brings forth thorns and briers is rejected, and is closest to what is accursed; their consummation is in combustion.