Quotes about Fruitless
But you may destroy the trees that you know do not produce fruit. Use them to build siege works against the city that is waging war against you, until it falls.
- Deuteronomy 20:20
Do not turn aside after worthless things that cannot profit you or deliver you, for they are empty.
- 1 Samuel 12:21
Should he argue with useless words or speeches that serve no purpose?
- Job 15:3
He will be like a vine stripped of its unripe grapes, like an olive tree that sheds its blossoms.
- Job 15:33
What does a man gain from all his labor, at which he toils under the sun?
- Ecclesiastes 1:3
You will seek them but will not find them. Those who wage war against you will come to nothing.
- Isaiah 41:12
Seeing a fig tree by the road, He went up to it but found nothing on it except leaves. “May you never bear fruit again!” He said. And immediately the tree withered.
- Matthew 21:19
Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the seedlings, and they yielded no crop.
- Mark 4:7
I fear for you, that my efforts for you may have been in vain.
- Galatians 4:11
Have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.
- Ephesians 5:11
Fields plowed and sown, but yielding no fruit! Machinery constantly in motion, but all without one particle of produce! Nets cast into the sea and spread wide, but no fishes caught! All this for years — for a lifetime!
- Horatius Bonar
Thus they in mutual accusation spent The fruitless hours, but neither self—condemning; And of their vain contest' appeared no end. (The closing lines of Book Nine, which illuminates The Fall.)
- John Milton