¹⁰ The ax is already at the root of the trees. Therefore, every tree that doesn’t produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.^(A)

⁹ The ax is already at the root of the trees. Therefore, every tree that doesn’t produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.”^(A)

⁷ He told the vineyard worker, ‘Listen, for three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree and haven’t found any. Cut it down!^(A) Why should it even waste the soil?’^(B)

² Every branch in me that does not produce fruit he removes,^(A) and he prunes every branch that produces fruit so that it will produce more fruit.

The Apostates’ Doom

¹² These people are dangerous reefs^[a] at your love feasts^(A) as they eat with you without reverence. They are shepherds who only look after themselves. They are waterless clouds carried along by winds;^(B) trees in late autumn—fruitless, twice dead and uprooted.