Matthew 7:19 Cross References - Riverside

¹⁹ Every tree that does not yield fine fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

¹⁰ Now the axe is lying at the root of the trees. Every tree that does not yield good fruit will be cut down and cast into the fire.

¹⁹ and seeing a solitary fig tree at the roadside he went to it, but found on it nothing but leaves only. He said to it, "Let there no more be fruit from you forever." The fig tree immediately withered up. ²⁰ Upon seeing this, the disciples were astonished and said, "How suddenly the fig tree withered up!"

⁹ Already the axe is lying at the root of the trees. Every tree that does not yield good fruit is to be cut down and thrown into the fire."

⁶ He gave this illustration: "A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard and came looking for fruit on it and found none. ⁷ He said to the gardener, 'See, three years I have been coming, looking for fruit on this fig tree, and I do not find any. Gut it down. Why should we waste land for it?' ⁸ But he answered him, 'Leave it this year too, Sir, until I dig around it and throw on manure. ⁹ Then, if it yields fruit in the future, all right. But if not, then you shall cut it down.'

² Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every one that bears fruit he cleanses, that it may bear more fruit. ³ You are already clean through the word that I have spoken to you. ⁴ Abide in me and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in me. ⁵ I am the Vine, you are the branches. He who abides in me and I in him — he bears much fruit; but without me you cannot do anything. ⁶ If any one does not abide in me, he is cast out like a branch and withers, and they gather them and throw them into the fire and they are burned.

⁸ but if it bears thorns and thistles it is judged worthless and is near to being cursed. In the end it will be burnt over.

¹² These are the hidden reefs in your love-feasts while they feast freely with you without fear, shepherds who care only for themselves, waterless clouds driven by winds, trees in autumn fruitless, twice dead, uprooted,