James 3:12
“Can þe figtree, my brethren, beare oliue berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountaine both yeeld salt water & fresh.”
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James 3:12 Context
10Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing: my brethren, these things ought not so to be. 11Doeth a fountaine send foorth at the same place sweet water and bitter? 12Can þe figtree, my brethren, beare oliue berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountaine both yeeld salt water & fresh. 13Who is a wise man and indued with knowledge amongst you? let him shew out of a good conuersation his workes with meekenes of wisedome. 14But if ye haue bitter enuying and strife in your hearts glory not, and lie not against the trueth.
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Other Translations for James 3:12
Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so [can] no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.
- King James Version
Can a fig tree, my brethren, produce olives, or a vine produce figs? Nor {can} salt water produce fresh.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
Can a fig tree, my brethren, yield olives, or a vine figs? Neither `can' salt water yield sweet.
- American Standard Version (1901)
Is a fig-tree able to give us olives, my brothers, or do we get figs from a vine, or sweet water from the salt sea?
- Basic English Bible
Can, my brethren, a fig produce olives, or a vine figs? Neither [can] salt [water] make sweet water.
- Darby Bible
Can the fig-tree, my brethren, bear olive-berries? or a vine, figs? so no fountain can yield both salt water and fresh.
- Webster's Bible
Can a fig-tree, my brethren, yield olives, or a vine yield figs? No; and neither can salt water yield sweet.
- Weymouth Bible
Can a fig tree, my brothers, yield olives, or a vine figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh water.
- World English Bible
My britheren, whether a fige tre may make grapis, ethir a vyne figus? So nethir salt watir mai make swete watir.
- Wycliffe Bible
is a fig-tree able, my brethren, olives to make? or a vine figs? so no fountain salt and sweet water [is able] to make.
- Youngs Literal Bible
People's Bible Notes for James 3:12
Jas 3:12 Can the fig tree . . . bear olive berries? Neither does a tree bear two opposite kinds of fruits. Nor should the mouth bear blessing and cursing, good and evil.