but if it bears thorns and thistles, it is rejected and near being cursed, whose end is to be burned.
Parallel translations
- KJV But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.
- BSB But land that produces thorns and thistles is worthless, and its curse is imminent. In the end it will be burned.
- NKJV but if it bears thorns and briers, it is rejected and near to being cursed, whose end is to be burned.
- NASB but if it yields thorns and thistles, it is worthless and close to being cursed, and it ends up being burned.
- NLT But if a field bears thorns and thistles, it is useless. The farmer will soon condemn that field and burn it.
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- John 15:6If a man doesn’t remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch, and is withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned.
- Gen 3:17–18To Adam he said, “Because you have listened to your wife’s voice, and ate from the tree, about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ the ground is cursed for your sake. You will eat from it with much labor all the days of your life.
- Luke 13:7–9He said to the vine dresser, ‘Behold, these three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and found none. Cut it down. Why does it waste the soil?’
- Deut 29:28Yahweh rooted them out of their land in anger, in wrath, and in great indignation, and thrust them into another land, as it is today.”
- Isa 5:1–7Let me sing for my well beloved a song of my beloved about his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill.
- Jer 44:22Thus Yahweh could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which you have committed; therefore your land has become a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without inhabitant, as it is today.
- Heb 12:17For you know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for a change of mind though he sought it diligently with tears.
- Heb 10:27but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which will devour the adversaries.
- Mark 11:21Peter, remembering, said to him, “Rabbi, look! The fig tree which you cursed has withered away.”
- Matt 7:19Every tree that doesn’t grow good fruit is cut down, and thrown into the fire.
- Job 31:40let briers grow instead of wheat, and stinkweed instead of barley.” The words of Job are ended.
- Ps 107:34and a fruitful land into a salt waste, for the wickedness of those who dwell in it.
- Gen 5:29He named him Noah, saying, “This one will comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, caused by the ground which Yahweh has cursed.”
- Gen 4:11Now you are cursed because of the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.
- Deut 29:22–23The generation to come, your children who will rise up after you, and the foreigner who will come from a far land, will say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses with which Yahweh has made it sick;
- Mal 4:1“For, behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace; and all the proud, and all who work wickedness, will be stubble; and the day that comes will burn them up,” says Yahweh of Armies, “that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
- Isa 27:10–11For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness. The calf will feed there, and there he will lie down, and consume its branches.
- Ezek 15:2–7“Son of man, what is the vine tree more than any tree, the vine-branch which is among the trees of the forest?
- Jer 17:6For he shall be like a bush in the desert, and shall not see when good comes, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited.
- Ezek 20:47and tell the forest of the South, ‘Hear Yahweh’s word: Thus says the Lord Yahweh, “Behold, I will kindle a fire in you, and it shall devour every green tree in you, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned thereby.
- Rev 20:15If anyone was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire.
- Matt 3:10“Even now the ax lies at the root of the trees. Therefore every tree that doesn’t produce good fruit is cut down, and cast into the fire.
- Mark 11:14Jesus told it, “May no one ever eat fruit from you again!” and his disciples heard it.
- Matt 25:41Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;
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