Luke 13:9
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.
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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Compare
- BSB
- If it bears fruit next year, fine. But if not, you can cut it down.’”
- KJV
- And if it bear fruit, well: and if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down.
- WEB
- If it bears fruit, fine; but if not, after that, you can cut it down.’”
- ASV
- and if it bear fruit thenceforth, [well]; but if not, thou shalt cut it down.
- DARBY
- and if it shall bear fruit but if not, after that thou shalt cut it down.
- BLB
- and if indeed it should make fruit in the [time], so be it. But if not, you will cut it down.’”
- ÅB
- om det kanskje kunne bære til neste år! hvis ikke, da kan du hugge det ned.
- OTB
- Hvis det bærer frukt neste år, vel og bra; men hvis ikke, så hogg det ned.'"
- B1930
- om det kanskje kunde bære til næste år! hvis ikke, da kan du hugge det ned.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
John 15:2
He cuts off every branch in Me that bears no fruit, and every branch that does bear fruit, He prunes to make it even more fruitful.
Read in contextHebrews 6:8
But land that produces thorns and thistles is worthless, and its curse is imminent. In the end it will be burned.
Read in contextPsalms 69:22–28
May their table become a snare; may it be a retribution and a trap.
Read in contextEzra 9:14–15
shall we again break Your commandments and intermarry with the peoples who commit these abominations? Would You not become so angry with us as to wipe us out, leaving no remnant or survivor?
Read in contextRevelation 16:5–7
And I heard the angel of the waters say: “Righteous are You, O Holy One, who is and was, because You have brought these judgments.
Read in contextDaniel 9:5–8
we have sinned and done wrong. We have acted wickedly and rebelled. We have turned away from Your commandments and ordinances.
Read in context1 Thessalonians 2:15
who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out as well. They are displeasing to God and hostile to all men,
Read in contextRevelation 15:3–4
and they sang the song of God’s servant Moses and of the Lamb: “Great and wonderful are Your works, O Lord God Almighty! Just and true are Your ways, O King of the nations!
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