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THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO
ST MATTHEW
CHAPTER 3
  10 And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which abringeth not forth good fruit is bhewn down, and cast into the fire.

Footnotes
10a
Alma 5: 36 (36-41).
  36 For behold, the time is at hand that whosoever abringeth forth not good fruit, or whosoever doeth not the works of righteousness, the same have cause to wail and mourn.
3 Ne. 14: 19.
  19 Every tree that abringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
D&C 52: 18.
  18 And again, he that is overcome and abringeth not forth fruits, even according to this pattern, is not of me.
D&C 97: 7.
  7 The aax is laid at the root of the trees; and every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit shall be hewn down and cast into the fire. I, the Lord, have spoken it.
b
Luke 13: 7.
  7 Then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: acut it down; why cumbereth it the ground?
Jacob 5: 42 (42-66).
  42 Behold, I knew that all the fruit of the vineyard, save it were these, had become acorrupted. And now these which have once brought forth good fruit have also become corrupted; and now all the trees of my vineyard are good for nothing save it be to be bhewn down and cast into the fire.