Yet I planted you a noble vine, wholly a true seed. How then have you turned into the degenerate shoots of an alien vine to Me?
James 3:12 - Modern King James Version Can the fig tree, my brothers, bear olive berries; or a vine, figs? So no fountain can yield both salt water and fresh. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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 planted you a noble vine, wholly a true seed. How then have you turned into the degenerate shoots of an alien vine to Me?
Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or else make the tree corrupt and its fruit corrupt; for the tree is known by its fruit.
And seeing a fig tree in the way, He came to it and found nothing on it except leaves only. And He said to it, let no fruit grow on you forever. And immediately the fig tree withered away.
Does a fountain send forth at the same hole the sweet and the bitter?