KJV King James Version
Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so [can] no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
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.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
My brothers, can a fig tree grow olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Neither can a salt spring produce fresh water.
WEB World English Bible
Can a fig tree, my brothers, yield olives, or a vine figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh water.
ASV American Standard Version
Can a fig tree, my brethren, yield olives, or a vine figs? neither can salt water yield sweet.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
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.
Surrounding context — James 3
9 Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which 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? either a vine, figs? so [can] no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.
13 Who [is] a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation 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.
15 This wisdom descendeth not from above, but [is] earthly, sensual, devilish.
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Original-language word links
These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
μὴG3361 · mēnotδύναται,G1410 · dunamaibe ableἀδελφοίG80 · adelphosbrotherμου,G3165 · memeσυκῆG4808 · sukēfig treeἐλαίαςG1636 · elaiaolive treeποιῆσαιG4160 · poieōto do/make: doἢG2228 · ēorἄμπελοςG288 · ampelosvineσῦκα;G4810 · sukonfigοὔτεG3777 · outeneitherἁλυκὸνG252 · halukossaltyγλυκὺG1099 · glukussweetποιῆσαιG4160 · poieōto do/make: doὕδωρ.¶G5204 · hudōr, hudatoswater
Cross-references
Luke 6:43-44For a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit; neither doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.Matthew 12:33Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by [his] fruit.Matthew 7:16-20Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?Jeremiah 2:21Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?Romans 11:16-18For if the firstfruit [be] holy, the lump [is] also [holy]: and if the root [be] holy, so [are] the branches.Ezekiel 47:8-11Then said he unto me, These waters issue out toward the east country, and go down into the desert, and go into the sea: [which being] brought forth into the sea, the waters shall be healed.Isaiah 5:2-4And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.Exodus 15:23-25And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they [were] bitter: therefore the name of it was called Marah.2 Kings 2:19-22And the men of the city said unto Elisha, Behold, I pray thee, the situation of this city [is] pleasant, as my lord seeth: but the water [is] naught, and the ground barren.
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