Luke 3:9

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Even now the ax is lying at the root of the trees; therefore every tree that does not bear good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.”

Cross References

Ezekiel 31:18

Which among the trees of Eden was like you in glory and in greatness? Now you shall be brought down with the trees of Eden to the world below; you shall lie among the uncircumcised, with those who are killed by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his horde, says the Lord God.

Daniel 4:14

He cried aloud and said: ‘Cut down the tree and chop off its branches; strip off its foliage and scatter its fruit. Let the animals flee from beneath it and the birds from its branches.

Daniel 4:23

And whereas the king saw a holy watcher coming down from heaven and saying, ‘Cut down the tree and destroy it, but leave its stump and roots in the ground, with a band of iron and bronze, in the grass of the field, and let him be bathed with the dew of heaven, and let his lot be with the animals of the field, until seven times pass over him’—

Matthew 3:10

Even now the ax is lying at the root of the trees; therefore every tree that does not bear good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.

Matthew 7:19

Every tree that does not bear good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.

Luke 13:6

Then he told this parable: “A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came looking for fruit on it and found none.

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.’ ”

John 15:6

Whoever does not abide in me is thrown away like a branch and withers; such branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned.

Hebrews 10:28

Anyone who has violated the law of Moses dies without mercy “on the testimony of two or three witnesses.”

Hebrews 12:29

for indeed our God is a consuming fire.