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Do the things that show you really have changed your hearts and lives. Don’t begin to say to yourselves, ‘Abraham is our father.’ I tell you that God could make children for Abraham from these rocks. The ax is now ready to cut down the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.”[a]

10 The people asked John, “Then what should we do?”

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Footnotes

  1. 3:9 The ax . . . fire. This means that God is ready to punish his people who do not obey him.

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