12Can the fig-tree, my brethren, bear olive-berries? or a vine, figs? so no fountain can yield both salt water and fresh.


In Context

9 With this we bless God, even the Father; and with this we curse men, who are made after the similitude of God.

10 Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.

11 Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?

12 Can the fig-tree, my brethren, bear olive-berries? or a vine, figs? so no fountain can yield both salt water and fresh.

13 Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him show by a good deportment his works with meekness of wisdom.

14 But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.

James 3:12 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:12Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so [can] no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

3:12My brothers, can a fig tree bear olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Neither can a salt spring produce fresh water.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

3:12Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear grapes; or the vine, figs? So neither can the salt water yield sweet.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

3:12Can a fig tree, my brethren, yield olives, or a vine figs? Neither can'salt water yield sweet.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:12Can, my brethren, a fig produce olives, or a vine figs? Neither can salt water make sweet water.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

3:12Can a fig tree, my brethren, yield olives, or a vine figs? neither can salt water yield sweet.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:12Can a fig tree, my brothers, yield olives, or a vine figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh water.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

3:12is a fig-tree able, my brethren, olives to make? or a vine figs? so no fountain salt and sweet water is able to make.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:12Can the fig tree, my brothers, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.