Deuteronomy 20:19
If in war a town is shut in by your armies for a long time, do not let its trees be cut down and made waste; for their fruit will be your food; are the trees of the countryside men for you to take up arms against them?
Deuteronomy 26:6
And the Egyptians were cruel to us, crushing us under a hard yoke:
Matthew 3:10
And even now the axe is put to the root of the trees; every tree then which does not give good fruit is cut down, and put into the fire.
Matthew 7:15-20
Be on the watch for false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inside they are cruel wolves.
Matthew 21:19
And seeing a fig-tree by the wayside, he came to it, and saw nothing on it but leaves only; and he said to it, Let there be no fruit from you from this time forward for ever. And straight away the fig-tree became dry and dead.
Luke 13:7-9
And he said to the gardener, See, for three years I have been looking for fruit from this tree, and I have not had any: let it be cut down; why is it taking up space?
John 15:2-8
He takes away every branch in me which has no fruit, and every branch which has fruit he makes clean, so that it may have more fruit.