Luke 13:8

Weymouth NT

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

Cross References

Luke 13:7

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?'

Luke 13:9

If after that it bears fruit, well and good; if it does not, then you shall cut it down.'«

Luke 14:35

Neither for land nor dunghill is it of any use; they throw it away. Listen, every one who has ears to listen with!«

Romans 10:1

Brethren, the longing of my heart, and my prayer to God, on behalf of my countrymen is for their salvation.

Romans 11:14

trying whether I can succeed in rousing my own countrymen to jealousy and thus save some of them.

2 Peter 3:9

The Lord is not slow in fulfilling His promise, in the sense in which some men speak of slowness. But He bears patiently with you, His desire being that no one should perish but that all should come to repentance.