Yet I planted you as a choice vine, from the purest stock. How then did you turn degenerate and become a wild vine?
James 3:12 - New Revised Standard Version Can a fig tree, my brothers and sisters, yield olives, or a grapevine figs? No more can salt water yield 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 as a choice vine, from the purest stock. How then did you turn degenerate and become a wild vine?
“Either make the tree good, and its fruit good; or make the tree bad, and its fruit bad; for the tree is known by its fruit.
And seeing a fig tree by the side of the road, he went to it and found nothing at all on it but leaves. Then he said to it, “May no fruit ever come from you again!” And the fig tree withered at once.
Does a spring pour forth from the same opening both fresh and brackish water?