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Luke 13:9

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

KJV

κἂν μὲν ποιήσῃ καρπὸν εἰς τὸ μέλλον· εἰ δὲ μήγε, ἐκκόψεις αὐτήν.

Greek NT

et siquidem fecerit fructum : sin autem, in futurum succides eam.

Vulgate

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

ASV

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

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

12 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
εἰ
ei
conditional · 491×
εἰς
eis
preposition · 1769×
καρπός
karpos
noun · 66×
κἄν
kan
conditional · 16×
μέλλω
mello
verb · 110×
μέν
men
particle · 177×
μή
me
particle · 1033×
ποιέω
poieo
verb · 569×
ἐκκόπτω
ekkopto
verb · 10×
o
article · 19778×

Textual variants

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

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SBLGNT: εἰς τὸ μέλλον εἰ δὲ μήγε — , | WH/Treg/NIV: εἰς τὸ μέλλον — εἰ δὲ μήγε, | RP: εἰ δὲ μήγε, εἰς τὸ μέλλον
  • εἰς τὸ μέλλον εἰ δὲ μήγε — ,SBLGNT
  • εἰς τὸ μέλλον — εἰ δὲ μήγε,Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • εἰ δὲ μήγε, εἰς τὸ μέλλονRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Parable

Historic Christian voices

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 1Thess 2:15 — Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:
  • Dan 3:15 — Now if ye be ready that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the image which I have made; well:
  • Dan 9:5 — We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments:
  • Ezra 9:14 — 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 n
  • Gal 5:22 — But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
  • Heb 6:8 — But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.
  • John 15:2 — Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
  • Luke 3:9 — And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: every tree therefore which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
  • Matt 13:23 — But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.
  • Ps 69:22 — Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.
  • Rev 16:5 — And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus.