Deuteronomy 20:19
If you besiege a city for a long time while attempting to capture it, you must not chop down its trees, for you may eat fruit from them and should not cut them down. A tree in the field is not human that you should besiege it!
Deuteronomy 26:6
But the Egyptians mistreated and oppressed us, forcing us to do burdensome labor.
Matthew 3:10
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.
Matthew 7:15-20
"Watch out for false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly are voracious wolves.
Matthew 21:19
After noticing a fig tree by the road he went to it, but found nothing on it except leaves. He said to it, "Never again will there be fruit from you!" And the fig tree withered at once.
Luke 13:7-9
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?'
John 15:2-8
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.