"Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or else make the tree rotten and its fruit rotten; for a tree is known by its fruit.
James 3:12 - English Majority Text Version It is not possible, my brothers, for a fig tree to make olives, or a vine to make figs, is it? Thus no spring is able to produce both salt and sweet water. Higit pang mga bersyonKing 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 else make the tree rotten and its fruit rotten; for a tree is known by its fruit.
And seeing a fig tree by the road, He went up to it and found nothing on it but leaves, and said to it, "May fruit no longer come from you ever again." And immediately the fig tree withered away.
The spring does not pour forth from the same opening both the sweet and the bitter water, does it?