Isaiah 5:4-5
5:4 What more can I do for my vineyard
beyond what I have already done?
When I waited for it to produce edible grapes,
why did it produce sour ones instead?
5:5 Now I will inform you
what I am about to do to my vineyard:
I will remove its hedge and turn it into pasture,
I will break its wall and allow animals to graze there.
Luke 3:9
3:9 Even now the ax is laid at the root of the trees,
and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be
cut down and thrown into the fire.”
Luke 13:6-9
Warning to Israel to Bear Fruit
13:6 Then Jesus told this parable: “A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came looking for fruit on it and found none.
13:7 So he said to the worker who tended the vineyard, ‘For three years now, I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and each time I inspect it I find none. Cut it down! Why should it continue to deplete the soil?’
13:8 But the worker answered him, ‘Sir, leave it alone this year too, until I dig around it and put fertilizer on it.
13:9 Then if it bears fruit next year, very well, but if not, you can cut it down.’”
John 15:2
15:2 He takes away
every branch that does not bear
fruit in me. He
prunes
every branch that bears
fruit so that it will bear more fruit.
John 15:6
15:6 If anyone does not remain
in me, he is thrown out like a branch, and dries up; and such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire,
and are burned up.
John 15:2
15:2 He takes away
every branch that does not bear
fruit in me. He
prunes
every branch that bears
fruit so that it will bear more fruit.
John 3:5
3:5 Jesus answered, “I tell you the solemn truth, unless a person is born of water and spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
Titus 1:16
1:16 They profess to know God but with their deeds they deny him, since they are detestable, disobedient, and unfit for any good deed.