Other translations
New Catholic Bible
From something unclean what can be clean? From something false what can be true?
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
From an unclean thing what can be clean? And from something false what can be true?
Good News Translation®
What is unreal can no more produce something real than what is dirty can produce something clean.
Wycliffe Bible
What shall be cleansed of him that is unclean, and what true thing shall be said of a liar? [Of the unclean, what shall be cleansed, and of the liar, what sooth (or truth) shall be said?]
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
From an unclean thing what will be made clean? And from something false what will be true?
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
From an unclean thing, what can be clean? And from something false, what can be true?
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
From an unclean thing what can be clean? And from something false what can be true?
Common English Bible © 2011
What will be made clean from something unclean? And what will be true of something false?
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
How can the unclean produce what is clean? How can the false produce what is true?
Revised Standard Version
From an unclean thing what will be made clean? And from something false what will be true?
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
From an unclean thing what can be clean? And from something false what can be true?