and if it bear fruit thenceforth, well; but if not, thou shalt cut it down.
And he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath day.
And he answering saith unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it:
Every branch in me that beareth not fruit, he taketh it away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he cleanseth it, that it may bear more fruit.
who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drave out us, and please not God, and are contrary to all men;
but if it beareth thorns and thistles, it is rejected and nigh unto a curse; whose end is to be burned.