Hebrews 6:8
Good News Translation
But if it grows thorns and weeds, it is worth nothing; it is in danger of being cursed by God and will be destroyed by fire.

New Revised Standard Version
But if it produces thorns and thistles, it is worthless and on the verge of being cursed; its end is to be burned over.

Contemporary English Version
But land that produces only thornbushes is worthless. It is likely to fall under God's curse, and in the end it will be set on fire.

New American Bible
But if it produces thorns and thistles, it is rejected; it will soon be cursed and finally burned.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But that which bringeth forth thorns and briers is reprobate and very near unto a curse: whose end is to be burnt.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But that which bringeth forth thorns and briers is reprobate and very near unto a curse: whose end is to be burnt.

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Hebrews 12:17 For know ye that afterwards, when he desired to inherit the benediction, he was rejected. For he found no place of repentance, although with tears he had sought it.

Genesis 3:17,18 And to Adam he said: Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee, that thou shouldst not eat, cursed is the earth in thy work: with labour and toil shalt thou eat thereof all the days of thy life. . . .

Genesis 4:11 Now therefore cursed shalt thou be upon the earth, which hath opened her mouth and received the blood of thy brother at thy hand.

Genesis 5:29 And he called his name Noe, saying: This same shall comfort us from the works and labours of our hands on the earth, which the Lord hath cursed.

Deuteronomy 29:28 And he hath cast them out of their land, in anger and in wrath, and in very great indignation, and hath thrown them into a strange land, as it is seen this day.

Job 31:40 Let thistles grow up to me instead of wheat, and thorns instead of barley.

Psalm 107:34 A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.

Isaiah 5:1-7 I will sing to my beloved the canticle of my cousin concerning his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a hill in a fruitful place. . . .

Jeremiah 17:6 For he shall be like tamaric in the desert, and he shall not see when good shall come: but he shall dwell in dryness in the desert in a salt land, and not inhabited.

Jeremiah 44:22 So that the Lord could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which you have committed: therefore your land is become a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without an inhabitant, as at this day.

Mark 11:14,21 And answering he said to it: May no man hereafter eat fruit of thee any more for ever! And his disciples heard it. . . .

Luke 13:7-9 And he said to the dresser of the vineyard: Behold, for these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree and I find none. Cut it down therefore. Why cumbereth it the ground? . . .

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Hebrews 10:27 But a certain dreadful expectation of judgment, and the rage of a fire which shall consume the adversaries.

Isaiah 27:10,11 For the strong city shall be desolate, the beautiful city shall be forsaken, and shall be left as a wilderness: there the calf shall feed, and there shall he lie down, and shall consume its branches. . . .

Ezekiel 15:2-7 Son of man, what shall be made of the wood of the vine, out of all the trees of the woods that are among the trees of the forests? . . .

Ezekiel 20:47 And say to the south forest: Hear the word of the Lord: Thus saith the Lord God: Behold I will kindle a fire in thee, and will burn in thee every green tree, and every dry tree: the flame of the fire shall not be quenched: and every face shall be burned in it, from the south even to the north.

Malachi 4:1 For behold the day shall come kindled as a furnace: and all the proud, and all that do wickedly shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall set them on fire, saith the Lord of hosts, it shall not leave them root, nor branch.

Matthew 3:10 For now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that doth not yield good fruit, shall be cut down, and cast into the fire.

Matthew 7:19 Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit, shall be cut down, and shall be cast into the fire.

Matthew 25:41 Then he shall say to them also that shall be on his left hand: Depart from me, you cursed, into everlasting fire, which was prepared for the devil and his angels.

John 15:6 If any one abide not in me, he shall be cast forth as a branch and shall wither: and they shall gather him up and cast him into the fire: and he burneth.

Revelation 20:15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the pool of fire.

Context
A Call to Maturity
7For the earth, that drinketh in the rain which cometh often upon it and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is tilled, receiveth blessing from God. 8But that which bringeth forth thorns and briers is reprobate and very near unto a curse: whose end is to be burnt. 9But, my dearly beloved, we trust better things of you, and nearer to salvation; though we speak thus.…
Cross References
Genesis 3:17
And to Adam he said: Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee, that thou shouldst not eat, cursed is the earth in thy work: with labour and toil shalt thou eat thereof all the days of thy life.

Deuteronomy 29:22
And the following generation shall say, and the children that shall be born hereafter, and the strangers that shall come from afar, seeing the plagues of that land and the evils wherewith the Lord hath afflicted it,

2 Samuel 23:7
And if a man will touch them, he must be armed with iron and with the staff of a lance: but they shall be set on fire and burnt to nothing.

Isaiah 27:4
There is no indignation in me: who shall make me a thorn and a brier in battle: shall I march against it, shall, I set it on fire together?

Hebrews 6:7
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