3 Bible Verses about Cutting Off Branches

for if you were taken from the wild olive, which was natural to you, to be grafted into a good olive-stock of a different nature, with how much greater reason shall these who are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive-tree?

every branch in me that beareth not fruit, he takes away: as for the branch that bears fruit, he prunes it clean, to make it more fruitful.

abundance of people spread their garments upon the ground; others lop'd down branches from the trees, and strewed them in the way: