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

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.

Romans 11:14

in order to make my own people jealous and thus save some of 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?’ ”

Romans 10:1

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

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.

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!

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.”

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!”