Luke 13:8

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

But the servant answered, ‘Master, let the tree have one more year to produce fruit. Let me dig up the dirt around it and fertilize it.

Cross References

2 Peter 3:9

The Lord is not being slow in doing what he promised—the way some people understand slowness. But God is being patient with you. He doesn’t want anyone to be lost. He wants everyone to change their ways and stop sinning.

Romans 11:14

I hope I can make my own people jealous. That way, maybe I can help some of them to be saved.

Joel 2:17

Let the priests, the Lord’s servants, cry between the porch and the altar. All of them should say this: “Lord, have mercy on your people. Don’t let your people be put to shame. Don’t let other people tell jokes about your people. Don’t let the other nations laugh at us and say, ‘Where is their God?’”

Romans 10:1

Brothers and sisters, what I want most is for all the people of Israel to be saved. That is my prayer to God.

Jeremiah 18:20

I have done only good to them. It is not right for them to pay me back with evil. But they are preparing a death trap for me! Remember that I prayed to you for them. I asked only good for them. I tried to keep you from punishing them in anger.

Jeremiah 15:1

The Lord said to me, “Jeremiah, even if Moses and Samuel were here to pray for the people of Judah, I would not feel sorry for them. Send the people of Judah away from me! Tell them to go!

Psalm 106:23

God wanted to destroy those people, but Moses, the leader he chose, stood in the way. God was very angry, but Moses begged him to stop, so God did not destroy the people.

Exodus 34:9

“Lord, if you are pleased with me, please go with us. I know that these are stubborn people, but forgive us for the bad things we did. Accept us as your people.”

Luke 13:7

He had a servant who took care of his garden. So he said to his servant, ‘I have been looking for fruit on this tree for three years, but I never find any. Cut it down! Why should it waste the ground?’

Luke 13:9

Maybe the tree will have fruit on it next year. If it still does not produce, then you can cut it down.’”

Luke 14:35

It is worth nothing. You can’t even use it as dirt or dung. People just throw it away. “You people who hear me, listen!”