^{7 Ref} So he said to the people who went out to him for baptism: You offspring of snakes, at whose word are you going in flight from the wrath to come?

^{8 Ref} Make clear by your acts that your hearts have been changed; and do not say to yourselves, We have Abraham for our father: for I say to you that God is able from these stones to make children of Abraham.

^{9 Ref} And even now the axe is put to the root of the trees; and every tree which does not have good fruit will be cut down and put into the fire.