Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
Can an Ethiopian change his skin, or a leopard his spots? Then you who are trained to do evil will also be able to do good.
New American Standard Bible
Or the leopard his spots?
Then you also can
Who are accustomed to doing evil.
King James Version
Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.
Holman Bible
or a leopard his spots?
If so, you might be able to do what is good,
you who are instructed in evil.
A Conservative Version
Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Then ye also may do good, who are accustomed to do evil.
American Standard Version
Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.
Amplified
“Can the Ethiopian change his skin
Or the leopard his spots?
Then you also can do good
Who are accustomed to evil and even trained to do it.
Bible in Basic English
Is it possible for the skin of the Ethiopian to be changed, or the markings on the leopard? Then it might be possible for you to do good, who have been trained to do evil.
Darby Translation
Can an Ethiopian change his skin, or a leopard his spots? Then may ye also do good, who are accustomed to do evil.
Julia Smith Translation
Will the Cushite change his skin and the panther his variegated spots? Ye shall also be able to do good, being taught to do evil.
King James 2000
Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may you also do good, that are accustomed to doing evil.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Can a Cushite change his skin, or a leopard his spots? [Then] you also will be able to do good, [who] are accustomed to doing evil.
Modern King James verseion
Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard its spots? Then you also may do good, who are accustomed to doing evil.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For like as the man of Ethiopia may change his skin, and the cat of the mountains her spots: so may ye that be exercised in evil, do good.
NET Bible
But there is little hope for you ever doing good, you who are so accustomed to doing evil. Can an Ethiopian change the color of his skin? Can a leopard remove its spots?
New Heart English Bible
Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Then may you also do good, who are accustomed to do evil.
The Emphasized Bible
Can the Ethiopian change, his skin, Or the leopard his spots? Even, ye, may be able to do right, Who are accustomed e to do wrong.
Webster
Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.
World English Bible
Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may you also do good, who are accustomed to do evil.
Youngs Literal Translation
Doth a Cushite change his skin? and a leopard his spots? Ye also are able to do good, who are accustomed to do evil.
Themes
Character » Of the wicked » Evil doers
Ethiopia » The inhabitants of, black
Interlinear
Haphak
Yakol
Yatab
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 13:23
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Message For The King And The Queen Mother
22 When you say to yourselves, "Why have all these things happened to me?' It's because of the extent of your iniquity that your skirt has been lifted up, and your heels have suffered violence. 23 Can an Ethiopian change his skin, or a leopard his spots? Then you who are trained to do evil will also be able to do good. 24 I'll scatter them like chaff blown away by a desert wind.
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Cross References
Proverbs 27:22
Though you crush a fool in a mortar and pestle as someone might crush grain, his stupidity still won't leave him.
Isaiah 1:5
"Why will you still be struck down? Why will you continue to rebel? Your whole head is sick, and your whole heart is faint.
Jeremiah 2:22
Though you wash yourself with lye and use much soap, the stain of your guilt is still before me," declares the Lord GOD.
Jeremiah 9:5
People deceive their friends, and they don't tell the truth. They have taught their tongues to tell lies. They exhaust themselves practicing evil.
Matthew 19:24-28
Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to squeeze through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to get into the kingdom of God."
Jeremiah 2:30
"I've punished your children with no results, they have accepted no discipline. Your sword has devoured your prophets like a destroying lion."
Jeremiah 5:3
LORD, don't your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they didn't flinch. You brought them to an end, but they refused to receive discipline. They made their faces harder than stone, and they refused to repent.
Jeremiah 6:29-30
The bellows blow fiercely to consume the lead with the fire. The assayer keeps on refining, but the impurities aren't separated out.
Jeremiah 17:9
"The heart is more deceitful than anything. It is incurable who can know it?