Isaiah 18:5
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5 For before the harvest, when the blossom is over
and the flower becomes a ripening grape,
he will cut off the shoots with pruning hooks,
and the spreading branches he will hew away.(A)
Daniel 4:14
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14 He cried aloud and said:
‘Cut down the tree and chop off its branches;
strip off its foliage and scatter its fruit.
Let the animals flee from beneath it
and the birds from its branches.(A)
John 15:6
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6 Whoever does not abide in me is thrown away like a branch and withers; such branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned.
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Romans 11:17
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17 But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot, were grafted among the others to share the rich root[a] of the olive tree,
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- 11.17 Other ancient authorities read the root and the richness
Romans 11:21
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21 For if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you.[a]
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- 11.21 Other ancient authorities read perhaps he will not spare you
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