One of them went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine and gathered from it his lap full of wild gourds, and came and cut them up into the pot of stew, not knowing what they were.
See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God; that no “root of bitterness” springs up and causes trouble, and by it many become defiled;
He answered, “Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be rooted up.
Yet I planted you a choice vine, wholly of pure seed. How then have you turned degenerate and become a wild vine?
What more was there to do for my vineyard, that I have not done in it? When I looked for it to yield grapes, why did it yield wild grapes?
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