Luke 13:7

Contemporary English Version 1995

So he said to the gardener, “For three years I have come looking for figs on this tree, and I haven't found any yet. Chop it down! Why should it take up space?”

Cross References

Matthew 7:19

Every tree producing bad fruit will be chopped down and burned.

Luke 3:9

An ax is ready to cut the trees down at their roots. Any tree that doesn't produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into a fire.”

John 15:6

If you don't stay joined to me, you will be thrown away. You will be like dry branches that are gathered up and burned in a fire.

John 15:2

He cuts away every branch of mine that doesn't produce fruit. But he trims clean every branch that does produce fruit, so that it will produce even more fruit.

Exodus 32:10

and I'm angry enough to destroy them, so don't try to stop me. But I will make your descendants into a great nation.

Daniel 4:14

and shouted: ‘Chop down the tree and cut off its branches; strip off its leaves and scatter its fruit. Make the animals leave its shade and send the birds flying from its branches.

Leviticus 19:23

After you enter the land, you will plant fruit trees, but you are not to eat any fruit from them for the first three years.

Leviticus 25:21

I will see to it that you harvest enough in the sixth year to last for three years.

Luke 13:8

The gardener answered, “Master, leave it for another year. I'll dig around it and put some manure on it to make it grow.