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.
James 3:12 - Wesley's New Testament 1755 Can a fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries, or a vine figs? So can no fountain yield 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. |
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 in the way, he came to it, and found nothing thereon but leaves only. And he saith to it, Let no fruit grow on thee hence-forward for ever.