Luke 13:8

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

He replied, ‘Sir, let it alone for one more year, until I dig around it and put manure on it.

Cross References

Psalm 106:23

Therefore he said he would destroy them— had not Moses, his chosen one, stood in the breach before him, to turn away his wrath from destroying them.

Exodus 34:9

He said, “If now I have found favor in your sight, my Lord, I pray, let my Lord go with us. Although this is a stiff-necked people, pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance.”

Jeremiah 15:1

Then the Lord said to me: Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my heart would not turn toward this people. Send them out of my sight, and let them go!

Jeremiah 18:20

Is evil a recompense for good? Yet they have dug a pit for my life. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them.

Joel 2:17

Between the vestibule and the altar, let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep. Let them say, “Spare your people, O Lord, and do not make your heritage a mockery, a byword among the nations. Why should it be said among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’ ”

Luke 13:7

So he said to the man working the vineyard, ‘See here! For three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and still I find none. Cut it down! Why should it be wasting the soil?’

Luke 13:9

If it bears fruit next year, well and good, but if not, you can cut it down.’ ”

Luke 14:35

It is useful neither for the soil nor for the manure pile; they throw it away. If you have ears to hear, then hear!”

Romans 10:1

Brothers and sisters, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for them is that they may be saved.

Romans 11:14

in order to make my own people jealous and thus save some of them.

2 Peter 3:9

The Lord is not slow about his promise, as some think of slowness, but is patient with you, not wanting any to perish but all to come to repentance.