James 3:12 - Revised Version 1885

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² 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

¹² Can a fig tree, my brethren, bear olives, or a grapevine figs? Neither can a salt spring furnish fresh water.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

¹² 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

¹² 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

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

James 3:12 Cross References

Jeremiah 2:21

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?

Matthew 12:33

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.

Matthew 21:19

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.

James 3:11

Doth the fountain send forth from the same opening sweet water and bitter?