James 3:12
ContextNET © | Can a fig tree produce olives, my brothers and sisters, 1 or a vine produce figs? Neither can a salt water spring produce fresh water. |
NIV © | My brothers, can a fig-tree bear olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Neither can a salt spring produce fresh water. |
NASB © | Can a fig tree, my brethren, produce olives, or a vine produce figs? Nor can salt water produce fresh. |
NLT © | Can you pick olives from a fig tree or figs from a grapevine? No, and you can’t draw fresh water from a salty pool. |
MSG © | Apple trees don't bear strawberries, do they? Raspberry bushes don't bear apples, do they? You're not going to dip into a polluted mud hole and get a cup of clear, cool water, are you? |
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? |
NRSV © | Can a fig tree, my brothers and sisters, yield olives, or a grapevine figs? No more can salt water yield fresh. |
NKJV © | Can a fig tree, my brethren, bear olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh. |
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NET © | Can a fig tree produce olives, my brothers and sisters, 1 or a vine produce figs? Neither can a salt water spring produce fresh water. |
NET © Notes |
1 tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:2. |