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. "
— James 3:12, Catholic Public Domain Version
“Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.”
“can a fig tree, my brethren, yield olives, or a vine figs? neither can salt water yield sweet. ”
“Can a fig tree, my brothers, yield olives, or a vine figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh water.”
“Can a fig tree produce olives, my brothers and sisters, or a vine produce figs? Neither can a salt water spring produce fresh water.”
“Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear grapes? Or the vine, figs? So neither can the salt water yield sweet.”
“Is a fig-tree able to give us olives, my brothers, or do we get figs from a vine, or sweet water from the salt sea?”
“Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.”
By it we bless God the Father, and by it we speak evil of men, who have been made in the likeness of God.
From the same mouth proceeds blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so!
Does a fountain emit, out of the same opening, both sweet and bitter water?
My brothers, can the fig tree yield grapes? Or the vine, figs? Then neither is salt water able to produce fresh water.
Who is wise and well-taught among you? Let him show, by means of good conversation, his work in the meekness of wisdom.
But if you hold a bitter zeal, and if there is contention in your hearts, then do not boast and do not be liars against the truth.
For this is not wisdom, descending from above, but rather it is earthly, beastly, and diabolical.