⁸ Therefore bear fruits worthy of repentance, ⁹ and do not think to say to yourselves, ^(A)‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I say to you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones. ¹⁰ And even now the ax is laid to the root of the trees. ^(B)Therefore every tree which does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

⁴ Indeed ^(A)the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out; and ^(B)the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of ^[a]Sabaoth.

⁸ No, you yourselves do wrong and cheat, and you do these things to your brethren! ⁹ Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. ^(A)Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor ^[a]homosexuals, nor ^[b]sodomites, ¹⁰ nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. ¹¹ And such were ^(B)some of you. ^(C)But you were washed, but you were ^[c]sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.

^2 (A)Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He ^[a]takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear ^(B)more fruit.

⁷ And ^(A)shall God not avenge His own elect who cry out day and night to Him, though He bears long with them?

²³ “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! ^(A)For you pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and ^(B)have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faith. These you ought to have done, without leaving the others undone.

⁹ “Thus says the Lord of hosts:

¹¹ “But they refused to heed, ^(D)shrugged^[b] their shoulders, and ^(E)stopped^[c] their ears so that they could not hear. ¹² Yes, they made their ^(F)hearts like flint, ^(G)refusing to hear the law and the words which the Lord of hosts had sent by His Spirit through the former prophets. ^(H)Thus great wrath came from the Lord of hosts. ¹³ Therefore it happened, that just as He proclaimed and they would not hear, so ^(I)they called out and I would not listen,” says the Lord of hosts. ¹⁴ “But ^(J)I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations which they had not known. Thus the land became desolate after them, so that no one passed through or returned; for they made the pleasant land desolate.”