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and if indeed it may bear fruit--;and if not so, thereafter thou shalt cut it off.'
Luke 13:9 · Young's Literal Translation
And if it bear fruit, well: and if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down.
If it bears fruit next year, fine. But if not, you can cut it down.’”
If it bears fruit, fine; but if not, after that, you can cut it down.’”
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6 And he spake this simile: `A certain one had a fig-tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit in it, and he did not find;
7 and he said unto the vine-dresser, Lo, three years I come seeking fruit in this fig-tree, and do not find, cut it off, why also the ground doth it render useless?
8 `And he answering saith to him, Sir, suffer it also this year, till that I may dig about it, and cast in dung;
9 and if indeed it may bear fruit--;and if not so, thereafter thou shalt cut it off.'
10 And he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath,
11 and lo, there was a woman having a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and she was bowed together, and not able to bend back at all,
12 and Jesus having seen her, did call her near, and said to her, `Woman, thou hast been loosed from thy infirmity;'
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