James 3:12 - Julia E. Smith Translation 1876

¹² The fig tree, my brethren, cannot make olives, or the vine, figs: so no fountain can make salt and sweet water.

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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 Tagairtí Cros

Jeremiah 2:21

And I planted thee a vine of purple grapes, wholly a true seed: and how didst thou turn to me the removings of a strange vine?

Matthew 12:33

Either make the tree good, and its fruit good; or make the tree rotten, and its fruit rotten; for the tree is known by its fruit.

Matthew 21:19

And having seen one fig tree by the way, he came to it, and found nothing on it, except leaves only; and he says to it, Let no more fruit be from thee forever. And instantly the fig tree was dried up.

James 3:11

Much less from the same aperture does a fountain bubble out sweet and bitter?