Luke 13:8

Tree of Life Version

“But answering, the gardener said to him, ‘Master, leave it alone for this year also, until I dig around it and apply fertilizer.

Cross References

2 Peter 3:9

The Lord is not slow in keeping His promise, as some consider slowness. Rather, He is being patient toward you—not wanting anyone to perish, but for all to come to repentance.

Romans 11:14

if somehow I might provoke to jealousy my own flesh and blood and save some of them.

Joel 2:17

Between the porch and the altar let the kohanim, ministers of Adonai, weep, and let them say: “Have pity, Adonai, on Your people. Don’t make Your heritage a scorn, a byword among the nations. Why should the peoples say, ‘Where is their God?’”

Romans 10:1

Brothers and sisters, my heart’s desire and my prayer to God for Israel is for their salvation.

Jeremiah 18:20

Will good be repaid for evil? For they dug a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before You to speak good on their behalf, to turn Your wrath from them.

Jeremiah 15:1

Then said Adonai to me: “Even if Moses and Samuel stood before Me, My soul could not be toward this people. Cast them out of My presence, and let them go out!”

Psalm 106:23

So He commanded their extermination, had not Moses, His chosen one, stood in the breach before Him, to turn His wrath from destroying them.

Exodus 34:9

He said, “If now I have found grace in Your eyes, my Lord, let my Lord please go within our midst, even though this is a stiff-necked people. Pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for Your own inheritance.”

Luke 13:7

So he said to the gardener, ‘Indeed, for three years I‘ve come searching for fruit on this fig tree and found none. Remove it! Why does it use up the ground?’

Luke 13:9

And if it bears fruit, good. But if not, cut it down.’”

Luke 14:35

It is not suitable for the soil or for a manure heap—it is thrown out. The one who has ears to hear, let him hear.”