Hebrews 6:7-8

Warning Against Apostasy

⁷ For _w land that has drunk the rain that often falls on it, and produces a crop useful to those for whose sake it is cultivated, receives a blessing from God. ⁸ But _x if it bears thorns and thistles, it is worthless and near to being cursed, _y and its end is to be burned.

1. Cross References
   Psalms 65:10
   You water its furrows abundantly, settling its ridges, softening it with showers, and blessing its growth.
   
2. Cross References
   Isaiah 5:1 - 7
   Let me sing for my beloved my love song concerning his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill.
   Genesis 3:17 - 18
   And to Adam he said, "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life.
   Deuteronomy 29:22 - 23
   And the next generation, your children who rise up after you, and the foreigner who comes from a far land, will say, when they see the afflictions of that land and the sicknesses with which the Lord has made it sick -
   Jeremiah 44:22
   The Lord could no longer bear your evil deeds and the abominations that you committed. Therefore your land has become a desolation and a waste and a curse, without inhabitant, as it is this day.
   Luke 13:6 - 9
   And he told this parable: "A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it and found none.
   
3. Cross References
   Malachi 4:1
   For behold, the day is coming, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble. The day that is coming shall set them ablaze, says the Lord of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.
   John 15:6
   If anyone does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned.