Yet 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?
James 3:12 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 Can a fig tree, my brethren, yield olives, or a vine figs? neither can salt water yield sweet. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Can a fig tree, my brethren, bear olives, or a grapevine figs? Neither can a salt spring furnish fresh water. American Standard Version (1901) can a fig tree, my brethren, yield olives, or a vine figs? neither can salt water yield sweet. Common English Bible My brothers and sisters, can a fig tree produce olives? Can a grapevine produce figs? Of course not, and fresh water doesn’t flow from a saltwater spring either. Catholic Public Domain Version My brothers, can the fig tree yield grapes? Or the vine, figs? Then neither is salt water able to produce fresh water. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear grapes; or the vine, figs? So neither can the salt water yield sweet. |
Yet 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?
Either make the tree good, and its fruit good; or make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by its fruit.
And seeing a fig tree by the way side, he came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only; and he saith unto it, Let there be no fruit from thee henceforward for ever. And immediately the fig tree withered away.
Doth the fountain send forth from the same opening sweet water and bitter?