Luke 13:9
New International Version
If it bears fruit next year, fine! If not, then cut it down.’”

New Living Translation
If we get figs next year, fine. If not, then you can cut it down.’”

English Standard Version
Then if it should bear fruit next year, well and good; but if not, you can cut it down.’”

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

Berean Literal Bible
and if indeed it should bear fruit in the time, so be it. But if not, you will cut it down.'"

King James Bible
And if it bear fruit, well: and if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down.

New King James Version
And if it bears fruit, well. But if not, after that you can cut it down.’ ”

New American Standard Bible
and if it bears fruit next year, fine; but if not, cut it down.’”

NASB 1995
and if it bears fruit next year, fine; but if not, cut it down.’”

NASB 1977
and if it bears fruit next year, fine; but if not, cut it down.’”

Legacy Standard Bible
and if it bears fruit next year, fine, but if not, cut it down.’”

Amplified Bible
and if it bears fruit after this, fine; but if not, cut it down.’”

Christian Standard Bible
Perhaps it will produce fruit next year, but if not, you can cut it down.’ ”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Perhaps it will bear fruit next year, but if not, you can cut it down.’”

American Standard Version
and if it bear fruit thenceforth, well; but if not, thou shalt cut it down.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And perhaps it will have borne fruit, otherwise next year you should cut it down.”

Contemporary English Version
Maybe it will have figs on it next year. If it doesn't, you can have it cut down."

Douay-Rheims Bible
And if happily it bear fruit: but if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down.

English Revised Version
and if it bear fruit thenceforth, well; but if not, thou shalt cut it down.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Maybe next year it'll have figs. But if not, then cut it down.'"

Good News Translation
Then if the tree bears figs next year, so much the better; if not, then you can have it cut down.'"

International Standard Version
Maybe next year it will bear fruit. If not, then cut it down.'"

Literal Standard Version
and if indeed it may bear fruit—and if not so, thereafter you will cut it off.”

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

New American Bible
it may bear fruit in the future. If not you can cut it down.’ ”

NET Bible
Then if it bears fruit next year, very well, but if not, you can cut it down.'"

New Revised Standard Version
If it bears fruit next year, well and good; but if not, you can cut it down.’”

New Heart English Bible
And if it bears fruit next time, [fine]; but if not, you can cut it down.'"

Webster's Bible Translation
And if it shall bear fruit, well: and if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down.

Weymouth New Testament
If after that it bears fruit, well and good; if it does not, then you shall cut it down.'"

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

Young's Literal Translation
and if indeed it may bear fruit -- ;and if not so, thereafter thou shalt cut it off.'

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Context
The Parable of the Barren Fig Tree
8‘Sir,’ the man replied, ‘leave it alone again this year, until I dig around it and fertilize it. 9If it bears fruit next year, fine. But if not, you can cut it down.’” 10One Sabbath Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues,…

Cross References
Luke 13:8
Sir,' the man replied, 'leave it alone again this year, until I dig around it and fertilize it.

Luke 13:10
One Sabbath Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues,


Treasury of Scripture

And if it bear fruit, well: and if not, then after that you shall cut it down.

if not.

Ezra 9:14,15
Should we again break thy commandments, and join in affinity with the people of these abominations? wouldest not thou be angry with us till thou hadst consumed us, so that there should be no remnant nor escaping? …

Psalm 69:22-28
Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap…

Daniel 9:5-8
We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments: …

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Luke 13
1. Jesus preaches repentance upon the punishment of the Galilaeans and others.
6. The fruitless fig tree may not stand.
10. He heals the crooked woman;
18. shows the powerful working of the word, by the parable of the grain of mustard seed,
20. and of leaven;
22. exhorts to enter in at the strait gate;
31. and reproves Herod and Jerusalem.














(9) And if it bear fruit.--Some of the better MSS. have, if it bear fruit in the time to come . . . With either reading the sentence is elliptical, and the insertion of "well," as in the English, is needed to convey its meaning.



Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
If
κἂν (kan)
Conjunction
Strong's 2579: And if, even if, even, at least. From kai and ean; and if.

it bears
ποιήσῃ (poiēsē)
Verb - Aorist Subjunctive Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 4160: (a) I make, manufacture, construct, (b) I do, act, cause. Apparently a prolonged form of an obsolete primary; to make or do.

fruit
καρπὸν (karpon)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's 2590: Probably from the base of harpazo; fruit, literally or figuratively.

[next year],
τὸ (to)
Article - Accusative Neuter Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

fine.
μέλλον (mellon)
Verb - Present Participle Active - Accusative Neuter Singular
Strong's 3195: A strengthened form of melo; to intend, i.e. Be about to be, do, or suffer something.

But
δὲ (de)
Conjunction
Strong's 1161: A primary particle; but, and, etc.

if
εἰ (ei)
Conjunction
Strong's 1487: If. A primary particle of conditionality; if, whether, that, etc.

not,
μή¦γε (mē¦ge)
Adverb
Strong's 1490: But if not, else, otherwise. From ei, de, and me; but if not.

you can cut it down.’”
ἐκκόψεις (ekkopseis)
Verb - Future Indicative Active - 2nd Person Singular
Strong's 1581: To cut out (off, away), remove, prevent. From ek and kopto; to exscind; figuratively, to frustrate.


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