James 3:1 (NKJV)

James 3:12 - Can a fig tree, my brethren, bear olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh.[fn]

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KJVKJV (read chapter in KJV)

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

NKJVNKJV (read chapter in NKJV)

Can a fig tree, my brethren, bear olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh.[fn]

NLTNLT (read chapter in NLT)

Does a fig tree produce olives, or a grapevine produce figs? No, and you can’t draw fresh water from a salty spring.[fn]

NIVNIV (read chapter in NIV)

My brothers and sisters, can a fig tree bear olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Neither can a salt spring produce fresh water.

ESVESV (read chapter in ESV)

Can a fig tree, my brothers, bear olives, or a grapevine produce figs? Neither can a salt pond yield fresh water.

CSBCSB (read chapter in CSB)

Can a fig tree produce olives, my brothers and sisters, or a grapevine produce figs? Neither can a saltwater spring yield fresh water.

NASB20NASB20 (read chapter in NASB20)

Can a fig tree, my brothers and sisters, bear olives, or a vine bear figs? Nor can salt water produce [fn]fresh.

NASB95NASB95 (read chapter in NASB95)

Can a fig tree, my brethren, produce olives, or a vine produce figs? Nor can salt water produce [fn]fresh.

LSBLSB (read chapter in LSB)

Can a fig tree, my brothers, produce olives, or a vine produce figs? Nor can saltwater produce [fn]fresh.

AMPAMP (read chapter in AMP)

Can a fig tree, my brothers, produce olives, or a grapevine produce figs? Nor can salt water produce [fn]fresh.

NETNET (read chapter in NET)

Can a fig tree produce olives, my brothers and sisters, or a vine produce figs? Neither can a salt water spring produce fresh water.

RSVRSV (read chapter in RSV)

Can a fig tree, my brethren, yield olives, or a grapevine figs? No more can salt water yield fresh.

ASVASV (read chapter in ASV)

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

YLTYLT (read chapter in YLT)

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.

DBYDBY (read chapter in DBY)

Can, my brethren, a fig produce olives, or a vine figs? Neither can salt water make sweet water.

WEBWEB (read chapter in WEB)

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

HNVHNV (read chapter in HNV)

Can a fig tree, my brothers, yield olives, or a vine figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh water.

VULVUL (read chapter in VUL)

numquid potest fratres mei ficus olivas facere aut vitis ficus sic neque salsa dulcem potest facere aquam

NAVNAV (read chapter in NAV)

أَمْ هَلْ يُمْكِنُ، يَا إِخْوَتِي، أَنْ تُثْمِرَ التِّينَةُ زَيْتُوناً، أَوِ الْكَرْمَةُ تِيناً؟ كَذَلِكَ لا يُمْكِنُ أَنْ يُعْطِيَ النَّبْعُ الْمَالِحُ مَاءً عَذْباً.

MGNTMGNT (read chapter in MGNT)

μὴ δύναται ἀδελφοί μου συκῆ ἐλαίας ποιῆσαι ἢ ἄμπελος σῦκα οὔτε ἁλυκὸν γλυκὺ ποιῆσαι ὕδωρ

TRTR (read chapter in TR)

μὴ δύναται ἀδελφοί μου συκῆ ἐλαίας ποιῆσαι ἢ ἄμπελος σῦκα οὕτως οὐδεμια πηγὴ ἁλυκὸν καὶ γλυκὺ ποιῆσαι ὕδωρ

SVDSVD (read chapter in SVD)

هَلْ تَقْدِرُ يَا إِخْوَتِي تِينَةٌ أَنْ تَصْنَعَ زَيْتُونًا، أَوْ كَرْمَةٌ تِينًا؟ وَلاَ كَذلِكَ يَنْبُوعٌ يَصْنَعُ مَاءً مَالِحًا وَعَذْبًا!

RVR09RVR09 (read chapter in RVR09)

Hermanos míos, ¿puede la higuera producir aceitunas, ó la vid higos? Así ninguna fuente puede hacer agua salada y dulce.

RVR60RVR60 (read chapter in RVR60)

Hermanos míos, ¿puede acaso la higuera producir aceitunas, o la vid higos? Así también ninguna fuente puede dar agua salada y dulce.

BBEBBE (read chapter in BBE)

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?

CHTCHT (read chapter in CHT)

我的弟兄們、無花果樹能生橄欖麼、葡萄樹能結無花果麼．鹹水裡也不能發出甜水來。

EMEM (read chapter in EM)

Hermanos míos, ¿puede la higuera producir olivas, o la vid higos? Tampoco de una fuente de agua salada brota agua dulce.

KORKOR (read chapter in KOR)

"내 형제들아 어찌 무화과 나무가 감람 열매를, 포도 나무가 무화과를 맺겠느뇨 이와 같이 짠 물이 단 물을 내지 못하느니라"

LSLS (read chapter in LS)

Un figuier, mes frères, peut-il produire des olives, ou une vigne des figues? De l'eau salée ne peut pas non plus produire de l'eau douce.

LUTLUT (read chapter in LUT)

Kann auch, liebe Brüder, ein Feigenbaum Ölbeeren oder ein Weinstock Feigen tragen? Also kann auch ein Brunnen nicht salziges und süßes Wasser geben.

RSTRST (read chapter in RST)

Не может, братия мои, смоковница приносить маслины или виноградная лоза смоквы. Также и один источник не [может] изливать соленую и сладкую воду.

SESE (read chapter in SE)

Hermanos míos, ¿puede la higuera producir aceitunas, o la vid higos? Así ninguna fuente puede dar agua salada y dulce.

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NKJV Footnotes

(3:12)

NU-Text reads Neither can a salty spring produce fresh water.

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