Matthew 15:13

The Passion Translation

Jesus replied, “Every plant that my heavenly Father didn’t plant is destined to be uprooted.

Cross References

Psalm 92:13

You’ve transplanted them into your heavenly courtyard, where they are thriving before you,

Isaiah 60:21

All your people will be righteous and will permanently possess the land. I planted them there as a tender sapling, the work of my own hands to display my glory.

Isaiah 61:3

to strengthen those crushed by despair who mourn in Zion— to give them a beautiful bouquet in the place of ashes, the oil of bliss instead of tears, and the mantle of joyous praise instead of the spirit of heaviness. Because of this, they will be known as Mighty Oaks of Righteousness, planted by Yahweh as a living display of his glory.

Matthew 15:12

Then his disciples approached him and said, “Don’t you know that what you just said offended the Pharisees?”

John 15:1

“I am a true sprouting vine, and the farmer who tends the vine is my Father.

John 15:2

He cares for the branches connected to me by lifting and propping up the fruitless branches and pruning every fruitful branch to yield a greater harvest.

John 15:6

If a person is separated from me, he is discarded; such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire to be burned.

1 Corinthians 3:9

We are coworkers with God and you are God’s cultivated garden, the house he is building.

Jude 1:12

These false teachers are like dangerous hidden reefs at your love feasts, lying in wait to shipwreck the immature. They feast among you without reverence, having no shepherd but themselves. They are clouds with no rain, swept along by the winds. Like fruitless late-autumn trees —twice dead, barren, and plucked up by the roots!