James 3:11

Good News Translation

No spring of water pours out sweet water and bitter water from the same opening.

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As a well keeps its water fresh, so Jerusalem keeps its evil fresh. I hear violence and destruction in the city; sickness and wounds are all I see.

Words of thanksgiving and cursing pour out from the same mouth. My friends, this should not happen!

A fig tree, my friends, cannot bear olives; a grapevine cannot bear figs, nor can a salty spring produce sweet water.