Matthew 3:10

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.

Now

Hebrews 3:1

Hebrews 10:28

Hebrews 12:25

The axe

Luke 3:9

Luke 23:31

Therefore

John 15:2

Is hewn

General references

Luke 3:9

Luke 6:43

Luke 13:30

Bible References

Now

Therefore, my Christian brothers, fix your thoughts on Jesus, the Messenger and High Priest whom we profess to follow,

Anyone who breaks the law of Moses pays the death penalty without any show of pity, on the evidence of two or three witnesses only.

See to it that you do not refuse to listen to Him who is speaking to you. For if they did not escape, because they refused to listen to him who warned them here on earth, how much less can we, if we reject Him who is from heaven?

The axe

Now the axe is already lying at the roots of the trees. Every tree, then, that fails to bear good fruit is to be cut down and thrown into the fire."

For if they do this when the wood is green, what will they do when it is dry?"

Therefore

He cuts away any branch on me that stops bearing fruit, and He repeatedly prunes every branch that continues to bear fruit, to make it bear more.

Is hewn

Any tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and burned up.

As He saw a fig tree by the roadside, He came to it but found on it nothing but leaves, and said to it, "Never again shall a fig grow on you!" And the fig tree at once withered up.

Then He told them this story: "A man had a fig tree planted by his vineyard, and he kept going and looking for figs on it, but did not find any.

If anyone does not remain in union with me, he is thrown away as a mere branch and is dried up; then it is picked up and thrown into the fire and burned up.

But if it continues to yield thorns and thistles, it is considered worthless and in danger of being cursed, and its final fate is burning.

Because the time has come for judgment to begin at the household of God, and if it begins with us, what will the end be of those who are rejecting God's good news?

General references

Now the axe is already lying at the roots of the trees. Every tree, then, that fails to bear good fruit is to be cut down and thrown into the fire."

"For there never is a healthy tree that bears poor fruit, nor a sickly tree that bears good fruit.

And so there are those now last who will be first then, and there are those now first who will then be last."