9If it bears fruit next year, fine! If not, then cut it down.' "
9If it bears fruit next year, fine! If not, then cut it down.' "
6 Then he told this parable: "A man had a fig tree, planted in his vineyard, and he went to look for fruit on it, but did not find any.
7 So he said to the man who took care of the vineyard, 'For three years now I've been coming to look for fruit on this fig tree and haven't found any. Cut it down! Why should it use up the soil?'
8 " 'Sir,' the man replied, 'leave it alone for one more year, and I'll dig around it and fertilize it.
9 If it bears fruit next year, fine! If not, then cut it down.' "
10 On a Sabbath Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues,
11 and a woman was there who had been crippled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not straighten up at all.
13:9And if it bear fruit, [well:] and if not, [then] after that thou shalt cut it down.
13:9And if happily it bear fruit: but if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down.
13:9and if it bear fruit thenceforth, well ; but if not, thou shalt cut it down.
13:9and if it shall bear fruit but if not, after that thou shalt cut it down.
13:9and if it bear fruit thenceforth, well; but if not, thou shalt cut it down.
13:9And if it shall bear fruit, well: and if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down.
13:9If it bears fruit, fine; but if not, after that, you can cut it down.'|
13:9and if indeed it may bear fruit — ;and if not so, thereafter thou shalt cut it off.'
13:9And if it bear fruit, well: and if not, then after that you shall cut it down.