¹⁴ And he said to it, Let no man take fruit from you for ever. And his disciples took note of his words.

¹⁹ And seeing a fig-tree by the wayside, he came to it, and saw nothing on it but leaves only; and he said to it, Let there be no fruit from you from this time forward for ever. And straight away the fig-tree became dry and dead.

¹¹ Let the evil man go on in his evil: and let the unclean be still unclean: and let the upright go on in his righteousness: and let the holy be holy still.

²⁰ For if, after they have got free from the unclean things of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again taken in the net and overcome, their last condition is worse than their first.

⁶ If a man does not keep himself in me, he becomes dead and is cut off like a dry branch; such branches are taken up and put in the fire and burned.

²⁰ And when they were going by in the morning, they saw the fig-tree dead from the roots.

²¹ And Peter, having a memory of it, said to him, Master, see, the tree which was cursed by you is dead.

⁴⁴ Any man falling on this stone will be broken, but he on whom it comes down will be crushed to dust.

³³ Give ear to another story. A master of a house made a vine garden, and put a wall round it, and made a place for crushing out the wine, and made a tower, and let it out to field-workers, and went into another country.

³³ Make the tree good, and its fruit good; or make the tree bad, and its fruit bad; for by its fruit you will get knowledge of the tree.

³⁴ You offspring of snakes, how are you, being evil, able to say good things? because out of the heart's store come the words of the mouth.

³⁵ The good man out of his good store gives good things; and the evil man out of his evil store gives evil things.

¹⁹ Every tree which does not give good fruit is cut down and put in the fire.

¹⁰ And even now the axe is put to the root of the trees; every tree then which does not give good fruit is cut down, and put into the fire.

⁵ And now, this is what I will do to my vine-garden: I will take away the circle of thorns round it, and it will be burned up; its wall will be broken down and the beasts of the field will go through it;

⁶ And I will make it waste; its branches will not be touched with the knife, or the earth worked with the spade; but blackberries and thorns will come up in it: and I will give orders to the clouds not to send rain on it.

²⁶ Today I put before you a blessing and a curse:

²⁷ The blessing if you give ear to the orders of the Lord your God, which I give you this day:

²⁸ And the curse if you do not give ear to the orders of the Lord your God, but let yourselves be turned from the way which I have put before you this day, and go after other gods which are not yours.

²⁹ And when the Lord your God has taken you into the land of your heritage, you are to put the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal.

³⁰ Are they not on the other side of Jordan, looking west, in the land of the Canaanites living in the Arabah, opposite Gilgal, by the holy tree of Moreh?

³¹ For you are about to go over Jordan to take the heritage which the Lord your God is giving you, and it will be your resting-place.

⁴ Give ear, O Israel: the Lord our God is one Lord:

⁵ And the Lord your God is to be loved with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.

⁶ Keep these words, which I say to you this day, deep in your hearts;

⁷ Teaching them to your children with all care, talking of them when you are at rest in your house or walking by the way, when you go to sleep and when you get up.

⁸ Let them be fixed as a sign on your hand, and marked on your brow;