SinaiJames 3:12
American Standard Version
can a fig tree, my brethren, yield olives, or a vine figs? neither can salt water yield sweet.
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James 3:12 in other translations
Can a fig tree, my brothers, yield olives, or a vine figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh water.
James 3:12 in context
- 10out of the same mouth cometh forth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.
- 11Doth the fountain send forth from the same opening sweet water and bitter?
- 12can a fig tree, my brethren, yield olives, or a vine figs? neither can salt water yield sweet.
- 13Who is wise and understanding among you? let him show by his good life his works in meekness of wisdom.
- 14But if ye have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, glory not and lie not against the truth.