Parallel Verses
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.
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.
Darby Translation
Can, my brethren, a fig produce olives, or a vine figs? Neither can salt water make sweet water.
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 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 a fountain send forth at the same hole the sweet and the bitter? 12 Can the fig tree, my brothers, bear olive berries; or a vine, figs? So no fountain can yield both salt water and fresh. 13 Who is wise and knowing among you? Let him show his works by his good conduct with meekness of wisdom.
Names
Cross References
Exodus 15:23-25
And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, because it was bitter. Therefore the name of it was called Marah.
2 Kings 2:19-22
And the men of the city said to Elisha, Behold, please, the location of this city is pleasant, as my lord sees. But the waters are bad, and the ground is barren.
Isaiah 5:2-4
And He fenced it, and gathered out the stones of it, and planted it with choice vines, and built a tower in its midst, and hewed out a wine vat in it; and He looked for it to produce grapes. And it produced wild grapes.
Jeremiah 2:21
Yet I planted you a noble vine, wholly a true seed. How then have you turned into the degenerate shoots of an alien vine to Me?
Ezekiel 47:8-11
And he said to me, These waters go out toward the eastern circuit, and go down into the Arabah, and go into the sea. They are brought out into the sea, and the waters shall be healed.
Matthew 7:16-20
You shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles?
Matthew 12:33
Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or else make the tree corrupt and its fruit corrupt; for the tree is known by its fruit.
Luke 6:43-44
For a good tree does not bring forth corrupt fruit, neither does a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
Romans 11:16-18
For if the firstfruit is holy, the lump is also holy; and if the root is holy, also the branches.