Luke 13:7

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

And he said to the vinedresser, ‘Lo, these three years I have come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and I find none. Cut it down; why should it use up the ground?’

Cross References

Exodus 32:10

now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them; but of you I will make a great nation.”

Daniel 4:14

He cried aloud and said thus, ‘Hew down the tree and cut off its branches, strip off its leaves and scatter its fruit; let the beasts flee from under it and the birds from its branches.

Leviticus 19:23

“When you come into the land and plant all kinds of trees for food, then you shall count their fruit as forbidden; three years it shall be forbidden to you, it must not be eaten.

Leviticus 25:21

I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, so that it will bring forth fruit for three years.

Matthew 7:19

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

Luke 13:8

And he answered him, ‘Let it alone, sir, this year also, till I dig about it and put on manure.

Luke 3:9

Even now the axe is laid to the root of the trees; every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.”

John 15:2

Every branch of mine that bears no fruit, he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

John 15:6

If a man does not abide in me, he is cast forth as a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire and burned.