When you lay siege to a city for an extended time while fighting against it to capture it, you must not destroy its trees by putting an axe to them, because you can eat their fruit. You must not cut them down. Are the trees of the field human, that you should besiege them?
The axe lies ready at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown
Seeing a fig tree by the road, He went up to it but found nothing on it except leaves. “May you never bear fruit again!”
Beware of false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.
So he said to the keeper of the vineyard, ‘Look, for the past three years I have come to search for fruit on this fig tr
He cuts off every branch in Me that bears no fruit, and every branch that does bear fruit, He prunes to make it even mor
But the Egyptians mistreated us and afflicted us, putting us to hard labor.