¹⁹ Every tree that doesn’t produce good fruit is 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)

⁹ Perhaps it will produce fruit next year, but if not, you can cut it down.’”

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.

⁶ If anyone does not remain in me, he is thrown aside^(A) like a branch and he withers. They gather them, throw them into the fire,^(B) and they are burned.^(C)