Luke 13:9

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Luke 13:9

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BSB

Berean Standard Bible

If it bears fruit next year, fine. But if not, you can cut it down.’”

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KJV

King James Version

And if it bear fruit, [well]: and if not, [then] after that thou shalt cut it down.

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WEB

World English Bible

If it bears fruit, fine; but if not, after that, you can cut it down.’”

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ASV

American Standard Version

and if it bear fruit thenceforth, [well]; but if not, thou shalt cut it down.

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BLB

Berean Literal Bible

and if indeed it should make fruit in the [time], so be it. But if not, you will cut it down.’”

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READ IN CONTEXT · BSB

Luke 13

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.

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