Luke 3:9

Contemporary English Version 1995

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.”

Cross References

Matthew 7:19

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

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.

Luke 13:9

Maybe it will have figs on it next year. If it doesn't, you can have it cut down.”

Luke 13:7

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?”

Matthew 3:10

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

Hebrews 12:29

Our God is like a destructive fire!

Daniel 4:23

Then you saw a holy angel come down from heaven and say, “Chop down the tree and destroy it! But leave its stump and roots in the ground, fastened there by a chain of iron and bronze. Let it stay for seven years out in the field with the wild animals, unprotected from the dew.”

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.

Ezekiel 31:18

King of Egypt, all these things will happen to you and your people! You were like this tree at one time—taller and stronger than anyone on earth. But now you will be chopped down, just as every tree in the garden of Eden must die. You will be sent down to the world of the dead, where you will join the godless and the other victims of violent death. I, the Lord God, have spoken.

Hebrews 10:28

If two or more witnesses accused someone of breaking the Law of Moses, that person could be put to death.

Luke 13:6

Jesus then told them this story: A man had a fig tree growing in his vineyard. One day he went out to pick some figs, but he didn't find any.