Luke 13:8

God's Word

“The gardener replied, ‘Sir, let it stand for one more year. I’ll dig around it and fertilize it.

Cross References

Psalm 106:23

God said he was going to destroy them, but Moses, his chosen one, stood in his way to prevent him from exterminating them.

Exodus 34:9

Then he said, “Lord, please go with us! Even though we are impossible to deal with, forgive our sin and the wrong we have done, and accept us as your own people.”

Jeremiah 15:1

Then the Lord said to me, “Even if Moses and Samuel were standing in front of me, I would not feel sorry for these people. Send them away from me, and let them go.

Jeremiah 18:20

Good should not be paid back with evil. They dig a pit to take my life. Remember how I stood in your presence and pleaded for them in order to turn your anger away from them.

Joel 2:17

The priests who serve the Lord cry between the altar and the entrance to the temple. They say, “Spare your people, O Lord. Don’t let the people who belong to you become a disgrace. Don’t let the nations ridicule them. Why should people ask, ‘Where is their God?’ ”

Luke 13:7

He said to the gardener, ‘For the last three years I’ve come to look for figs on this fig tree but haven’t found any. Cut it down! Why should it use up ⌞good⌟ soil?’

Luke 13:9

Maybe next year it’ll have figs. But if not, then cut it down.’ ”

Luke 14:35

It’s not any good for the ground or for the manure pile. People throw it away. “Let the person who has ears listen!”

Romans 10:1

Brothers and sisters, my heart’s desire and prayer to God on behalf of the Jewish people is that they would be saved.

Romans 11:14

Perhaps I can make my people jealous and save some of them.

2 Peter 3:9

The Lord isn’t slow to do what he promised, as some people think. Rather, he is patient for your sake. He doesn’t want to destroy anyone but wants all people to have an opportunity to turn to him and change the way they think and act.