Devine Scripture

James 3:12

James chapter 3 · verse 12 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

can a fig tree, my brethren, yield olives, or a vine figs? neither can salt water yield sweet.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

can a fig tree, my brethren, yield olives, or a vine figs? neither can salt water yield sweet.

Context

v.11Doth the fountain send forth from the same opening sweet water and bitter?

v.12This passage

v.13Who is wise and understanding among you? let him show by his good life his works in meekness of wisdom.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Matthew 7:16

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

  • Jeremiah 2:21

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

  • Luke 6:43

    For there is no good tree that bringeth forth corrupt fruit; nor again a corrupt tree that bringeth forth good fruit.

  • Romans 11:16

    And if the firstfruit is holy, so is the lump: and if the root is holy, so are the branches.

  • Isaiah 5:2

    and he digged 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 hewed out a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.

  • Matthew 12:33

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