Luke 23:31
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“For if men do these things while the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry?””
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“For if men do these things while the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry?””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry?”
King James Version · Public Domain“For if they do these things in the green tree, what shall be done in the dry?”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“for, if in the green tree they do these things--in the dry what may happen?'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Luke 23:31 — 11 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Proverbs 11:31If the righteous receive their due on earth, how much more the ungodly and the sinner!
- Jeremiah 25:29For behold, I am beginning to bring disaster on the city that bears My Name, so how could you possibly go unpunished? You will not go unpunished, for I am calling down a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, declares the LORD of Hosts.’
- Ezekiel 15:2“Son of man, how does the wood of the vine surpass any other branch among the trees in the forest?
- Ezekiel 20:47Say to the forest of the Negev: Hear the word of the LORD! This is what the Lord GOD says: I am about to ignite in you a fire, and it will devour all your trees, both green and dry. The blazing flame will not be quenched, and by it every face from south to north will be scorched.
- Ezekiel 21:3and tell her that this is what the LORD says: ‘I am against you, and I will draw My sword from its sheath and cut off from you both the righteous and the wicked.
- Daniel 9:26Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and will have nothing. Then the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood, and until the end there will be war; desolations have been decreed.
- Matthew 3:12His winnowing fork is in His hand to clear His threshing floor and to gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”
- John 15:6If anyone does not remain in Me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers. Such branches are gathered up, thrown into the fire, and burned.
- Hebrews 6:8But land that produces thorns and thistles is worthless, and its curse is imminent. In the end it will be burned.
- 1 Peter 4:17For it is time for judgment to begin with the family of God; and if it begins with us, what will the outcome be for those who disobey the gospel of God?
- Jude 1:12These men are hidden reefs in your love feasts, shamelessly feasting with you but shepherding only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried along by the wind; fruitless trees in autumn, twice dead after being uprooted.
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