Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
Can, my brethren, a fig produce olives, or a vine figs? Neither can salt water make sweet water.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.
Holman Bible
Can a fig tree produce olives, my brothers, or a grapevine produce figs? Neither can a saltwater spring yield fresh water.
International Standard Version
My brothers, a fig tree cannot produce olives, nor a grapevine figs, can it? Neither can a salt spring produce fresh water.
A Conservative Version
A fig tree, my brothers, cannot make olives, or a grapevine figs. In the same way, no one spring makes water salty and sweet.
American Standard Version
Can a fig tree, my brethren, yield olives, or a vine figs? Neither can'salt water yield sweet.
Amplified
Can a fig tree, my brothers, produce olives, or a grapevine produce figs? Nor can salt water produce
An Understandable Version
My brothers, can a fig tree produce olives or a grapevine [produce] figs? Neither can a salt water [spring] produce fresh water.
Anderson New Testament
Can the fig-tree, my brethren, bear olives, or the vine, figs? So no fountain can produce salt water and fresh.
Bible in Basic English
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?
Common New Testament
Can a fig tree, my brethren, produce olives, or a grapevine produce figs? Nor can salt water produce fresh.
Daniel Mace New Testament
can a fig-tree, my brethren, produce olives, or a vine figs? no more can the sea yield water that is fresh.
Godbey New Testament
My brethren, whether is the fig-tree able to produce olives, or the vine figs? Neither is the bitter fountain able to produce sweet water.
Goodspeed New Testament
Can a fig tree produce olives, my brothers, or a grape vine figs? A salt spring cannot give fresh water.
John Wesley New Testament
Can a fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries, or a vine figs? So can no fountain yield salt water and fresh.
Julia Smith Translation
The fig tree, my brethren, cannot make olives, or the vine, figs: so no fountain can make salt and sweet water.
King James 2000
Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.
Lexham Expanded Bible
A fig tree is not able, my brothers, to produce olives, or a grapevine figs. Neither can a saltwater spring produce fresh water.
Modern King James verseion
Can the fig tree, my brothers, bear olive berries; or a vine, figs? So no fountain can yield both salt water and fresh.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries: or a vine bear figs? So can no fountain give both salt water and fresh also.
Moffatt New Testament
Can a fig tree, my brothers, bear olives? Or a vine, figs? No more can salt water yield fresh.
Montgomery New Testament
Can a fig tree, my brothers, bear olives; or a grape-vine, figs? No more can salt water yield fresh water.
NET Bible
Can a fig tree produce olives, my brothers and sisters, or a vine produce figs? Neither can a salt water spring produce fresh water.
New Heart English Bible
Can a fig tree, my brothers, yield olives, or a vine figs? Nor is salt water able to produce sweet.
Noyes New Testament
Can a figtree, my brethren, bear olives, or a vine, figs? Neither can salt water yield fresh.
Sawyer New Testament
Can a fig tree, my brothers, produce olives, or a vine, figs? So you cannot make salt water sweet.
The Emphasized Bible
Is it possible, my brethren, for, a fig-tree, to produce, olives, or, a vine, figs? Neither can, salt, water yield, sweet.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Can a fig-tree, my brethren, produce olives; or a vine figs? so also can no fountain send forth salt water and sweet.
Twentieth Century New Testament
Can a fig tree, my Brothers, bear olives? or a vine bear figs? No, nor can a brackish well give good water.
Webster
Can the fig-tree, my brethren, bear olive-berries? or a vine, figs? so no fountain can yield both salt water and fresh.
Weymouth New Testament
Can a fig-tree, my brethren, yield olives, or a vine yield figs? No; and neither can salt water yield sweet.
Williams New Testament
A fig tree, my brothers, cannot bear olives, or a grape-vine figs, can it? And a salt spring cannot furnish fresh water.
World English Bible
Can a fig tree, my brothers, yield olives, or a vine figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh water.
Worrell New Testament
My brethren, can a fig tree produce olives; or a vine, figs? Neither can salt water yield sweet.
Worsley New Testament
Can a fig-tree, my brethren, produce olives, or a vine figs? so can no fountain produce salt water and sweet.
Youngs Literal Translation
is a fig-tree able, my brethren, olives to make? or a vine figs? so no fountain salt and sweet water is able to make.
Themes
Olive Trees » Described as » Bearing goodly fruit
Salt » Often found » In springs
Servants » Servants not being able to serve two masters
Interlinear
Poieo
References
Word Count of 37 Translations in James 3:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
Restraining The Tongue
11 Does the fountain, out of the same opening, pour forth sweet and bitter? 12 Can, my brethren, a fig produce olives, or a vine figs? Neither can salt water make sweet water. 13 Who is wise and understanding among you; let him shew out of a good conversation his works in meekness of wisdom;
Names
Cross References
Exodus 15:23-25
And they came to Marah, and could not drink the waters of Marah, for they were bitter; therefore the name of it was called Marah.
2 Kings 2:19-22
And the men of the city said to Elisha, Behold now, the situation of the city is good, as my lord sees; but the water is bad, and the land is barren.
Isaiah 5:2-4
And he dug it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine; and he built a tower in the midst of it, and also hewed out a winepress therein; and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, but it brought forth wild grapes.
Jeremiah 2:21
And I, I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed; how then art thou turned into the degenerate shoots of a strange vine unto me?
Ezekiel 47:8-11
And he said unto me, These waters issue out toward the east district, and go down into the plain, and go into the sea; when they are brought forth into the sea, the waters thereof shall be healed.
Matthew 7:16-20
By their fruits ye shall know them. Do men gather a bunch of grapes from thorns, or from thistles figs?
Matthew 12:33
Either make the tree good, and its fruit good; or make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt. For from the fruit the tree is known.
Luke 6:43-44
For there is no good tree which produces corrupt fruit, nor a corrupt tree which produces good fruit;
Romans 11:16-18
Now if the first-fruit be holy, the lump also; and if the root be holy, the branches also.