Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 And if thou wouldest say then in thine heart, 'Wherefore come these things upon me?' Even for the multitude of thy blasphemies, shall thy hinder parts and thy feet be uncovered. 23 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. 24 Therefore will I scatter you, like as the stubble that is taken away with the south wind.
Names
Cross References
Proverbs 27:22
Though thou shouldest bray a fool with a pedestal in a mortar like oatmeal, yet will not his foolishness go from him.
Isaiah 1:5
Wherefore should ye be plagued any more? For ye are ever falling away. The whole head is sick, and the heart is very heavy.
Jeremiah 2:22
Yea, and that so sore, that though thou washest thee with Nitre and makest thyself to savour with that sweet smelling herb of Borith: yet in my sight thou art stained with thy wickedness, sayeth the LORD thy God.
Jeremiah 9:5
Yea, one dissesembleth with another, and they deal with no truth. They have practiced their tongues to lie, and taken great pains to do mischief.
Matthew 19:24-28
And moreover I say unto you: it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God."
Jeremiah 2:30
It is but lost labour, that I smite your children, for they receive not my correction. Your own sword destroyeth your prophets, like a devouring lion.
Jeremiah 5:3
Where as thou, O LORD, lookest only upon faith and truth. Thou hast scourged them, but they took no repentance: thou hast corrected them for amendment, but they refused thy correction. They made their faces harder than stone, and would not amend.
Jeremiah 6:29-30
The bellows are burnt in the fire, the lead is consumed, the melter melteth in vain, for the evil is not taken away from them.
Jeremiah 17:9
Among all things living, man hath the most deceitful and unsearchable heart. Who shall then know it?