Luke 13:9
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
If it bears fruit next year, fine. But if not, you can cut it down.’”
In context
7 So he said to the keeper of the vineyard, ‘Look, for the past three years I have come to search for fruit on this fig tree and haven’t found any. Therefore cut it down! Why should it use up the soil?’
8 ‘Sir,’ the man replied, ‘leave it alone again this year, until I dig around it and fertilize it.
9 If it bears fruit next year, fine. But if not, you can cut it down.’”
10 One Sabbath Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues,
11 and a woman there had been disabled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was hunched over and could not stand up straight.
Luke 13:9 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- If it bears fruit next year, fine. But if not, you can cut it down.’”
- KJV King James Version
- And if it bear fruit, well: and if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down.
- WEB World English Bible
- If it bears fruit, fine; but if not, after that, you can cut it down.’”
- ASV American Standard Version
- and if it bear fruit thenceforth, well; but if not, thou shalt cut it down.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- and if indeed it may bear fruit — ;and if not so, thereafter thou shalt cut it off.'
- DBY Darby Translation
- and if it shall bear fruit — but if not, after that thou shalt cut it down.
- WBS Webster Bible
- And if it shall bear fruit, well : and if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down.