James 3:12

10 Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.

11 Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?

Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.

13 Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.

14 But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB
My brothers, can a fig tree grow olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Neither can a salt spring produce fresh water.
KJV
Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.
WEB
Can a fig tree, my brothers, yield olives, or a vine figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh water.
ASV
Can a fig tree, my brethren, yield olives, or a vine figs? Neither [can] salt water yield sweet.
DARBY
Can, my brethren, a fig produce olives, or a vine figs? Neither [can] salt [water] make sweet water.
BLB
Is a fig tree able, my brothers, to make olives, or a vine, figs? Neither [can] salt prooduce sweet water.
ÅB
Kan vel et fikentre, mine brødre, bære oljebær, eller et vintre fiken? Heller ikke kan en salt kilde gi søtt vann.
OTB
Mine brødre og søstre, kan et fikentre bære oliven, eller en vintre bære fikener? Likeledes kan ikke en salt kilde gi friskt vann.
B1930
Kan vel et fikentre, mine brødre, bære oljebær, eller et vintre fiken? Heller ikke kan en salt kilde gi søtt vann.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Luke 6:43–44

    For a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit; neither doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.

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  • Matthew 12:33

    Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit.

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  • Matthew 7:16–20

    Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?

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  • Jeremiah 2:21

    Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?

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  • Romans 11:16–18

    For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.

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  • Ezekiel 47:8–11

    Then said he unto me, These waters issue out toward the east country, and go down into the desert, and go into the sea: which being brought forth into the sea, the waters shall be healed.

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  • Isaiah 5:2–4

    And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.

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