Jeremiah 11:19
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19 for I was like a docile[a] lamb led to slaughter.(A)
I didn’t know that they had devised plots against me:
“Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit;[b]
let’s cut him off from the land of the living(B)
so that his name will no longer be remembered.”
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- Jeremiah 11:19 Or pet
- Jeremiah 11:19 Lit bread
Matthew 3:10
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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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Luke 3:9
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9 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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- Luke 3:9 Lit the ax lies at
Luke 13:7
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7 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!(A) Why should it even waste the soil?’(B)
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John 15:2
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2 Every branch in Me that does not produce fruit He removes,(A) and He prunes every branch that produces fruit so that it will produce more fruit.
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Jude 12
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The Apostates’ Doom
12 These are the ones who are like dangerous reefs[a] at your love feasts.(A) They feast with you, nurturing only themselves without fear. They are waterless clouds carried along by winds;(B) trees in late autumn—fruitless, twice dead, pulled out by the roots;
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- Jude 1:12 Or like spots
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