The ax is already poised at the root of the trees, and all the trees that don’t produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.”
Every tree that doesn’t bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
If you don’t remain in me, you’ll be like a branch that breaks off and dries up. Branches like that are picked up, thrown into the fire, and burned.
If it bears fruit next year, great. If not, then we can cut it down.’ ”
So he said to the man who took care of the vineyard, ‘For three years now I’ve been coming to look for fruit on this fig tree but I’ve never found any. Cut it down! Why should it use up the soil?’
The ax is already at the tree roots, and any tree that doesn’t produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.
because our “God is like a fire that burns everything up.”
If anyone broke the law of Moses, that person would die without mercy if two or three witnesses gave evidence against them.
Then Jesus told a story. “A man had a fig tree growing in his vineyard, but when he went to look for fruit on it, he didn’t find any.