BRANCH, FIGURATIVE

=>Pruning of

Isaiah 18:5

5. For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the BRANCHes.

Daniel 4:14

14. He cried aloud, and said thus, Hew down the tree, and cut off his BRANCHes, shake off his leaves, and scatter his fruit: let the beasts get away from under it, and the fowls from his BRANCHes:

John 15:6

6. If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a BRANCH, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.

Romans 11:17-21

17. And if some of the BRANCHes be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;

18. Boast not against the BRANCHes. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.

19. Thou wilt say then, The BRANCHes were broken off, that I might be graffed in.

20. Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:

21. For if God spared not the natural BRANCHes, take heed lest he also spare not thee.