Luke 13:7-9

Expanded Bible

⁷ So the man said to his gardener, ‘[^LLook,] I have been looking for fruit on this tree for three years, but I never find any. Cut it down. Why should it ·waste the ground [take up space]?’ ⁸ But the servant answered, ‘·Master [Sir], let the tree have one more year to produce fruit. Let me dig up the dirt around it and put on some ·fertilizer [manure]. ⁹ If the tree produces fruit next year, good. But if not, you can cut it down.’”