And if it produces fruit, fine. But if not, in the coming year, you can cut it down.' "
Now He was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath.
But he answered and said to him, 'Sir, let it alone this year also, until I dig around it and fertilize it.
Every branch in Me which does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch which bears fruit He prunes, so that it may bear more fruit.
who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they do not please God and are against all men,
but if it bears thorns and thistles, it is worthless and near to being cursed, of which the end is for burning.