Luke 13:7

Weymouth NT

So he said to the gardener, »`See, this is the third year I have come to look for fruit on this fig-tree and cannot find any. Cut it down. Why should so much ground be actually wasted?'

Cross References

Matthew 7:19

Every tree which does not yield good fruit is cut down and thrown aside for burning.

Luke 13:8

»But the gardener pleaded,« `Leave it, Sir, this year also, till I have dug round it and manured it.

Luke 3:9

And even now the axe is lying at the root of the trees, so that every tree which fails to yield good fruit will quickly be hewn down and thrown into the fire.«

John 15:2

Every branch in me–if it bears no fruit, He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

John 15:6

If any one does not continue in me, he is like the unfruitful branch which is at once thrown away and then withers up. Such branches they gather up and throw into the fire and they are burned.