10 Even now the ax is ready to strike the root of the trees! Therefore, every tree that doesn’t produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.(A)

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19 Every tree that doesn’t produce good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.(A)

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13 He replied, “Every plant that My heavenly Father didn’t plant will be uprooted.(A)

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Even now the ax is ready to strike[a] the root of the trees! Therefore, every tree that doesn’t produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.”(A)

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  1. Luke 3:9 Lit the ax lies at

The Parable of the Barren Fig Tree

And He told this parable:(A) “A man had a fig tree that was planted in his vineyard. He came looking for fruit on it and found none.(B) He told the vineyard worker, ‘Listen, for three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree and haven’t found any. Cut it down!(C) Why should it even waste the soil?’(D)

“But he replied to him, ‘Sir,[a] leave it this year also, until I dig around it and fertilize it.(E) Perhaps it will bear fruit next year, but if not, you can cut it down.’”

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  1. Luke 13:8 Or Lord

If anyone does not remain in Me, he is thrown aside(A) like a branch and he withers. They gather them, throw them into the fire,(B) and they are burned.(C)

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17 Now if some of the branches were broken off,(A) and you, though a wild olive branch, were grafted in among them(B) and have come to share in the rich root[a] of the cultivated olive tree,

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  1. Romans 11:17 Other mss read the root and the richness

22 Therefore, consider God’s kindness and severity: severity toward those who have fallen but God’s kindness(A) toward you—if you remain in His kindness.(B) Otherwise you too will be cut off.(C)

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