James 3:11 — Compare All Translations

English (YLT) 1898 Young's Literal Translation by Robert Young

doth the fountain out of the same opening pour forth the sweet and the bitter?

English ASV

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

English Amplified

Does a fountain send forth [simultaneously] from the same opening fresh water and bitter?

English Amplified Classic Bible 1987

Does a fountain send forth [simultaneously] from the same opening fresh water and bitter?

English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025

Can both fresh water and salt water flow from the same spring?

English CSB 2017 - Christian Standard Bible

Does a spring pour out sweet and bitter water from the same opening?

English Darby 1890 : Public Domain

Does the fountain, out of the same opening, pour forth sweet and bitter?

English EASY 2024

Salty water and sweet water never come from the same spring.

English ERV 2006 - Only For Website

Do good water and bad water flow from the same spring? Of course not.

Does a spring pour forth from the same opening both fresh and salt water?

English GNT (Good News Translation)

No spring of water pours out sweet water and bitter water from the same opening.

English God's Word - GW 1995

Do clean and polluted water flow out of the same spring?

English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website

Does a spring pour out sweet and bitter water from the same opening?

English KJV 1611

Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?

English LSB

Does a fountain pour forth from the same opening fresh and bitter water?

English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)

Does a spring yield at the same opening sweet and bitter water?

English NASB (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)

Does a fountain send out from the same opening both fresh and bitter water?

English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website

Does a spring gush forth from the same opening both pure and brackish water?

English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)

A spring does not pour out fresh water and bitter water from the same opening, does it?

English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website

Can fresh water and salt water flow out of the same spring?

English NIV

Can both fresh water and salt water flow from the same spring?

English NKJ 1982

Does a spring send forth fresh water and bitter from the same opening?

English NLT

Does a spring of water bubble out with both fresh water and bitter water?

English NRSV 1989 - Only for website

Does a spring pour forth from the same opening both fresh and brackish water?

English Passion Translation Bible 2020

Would you look for olives hanging on a fig tree or go to pick figs from a grapevine? Is it possible that fresh and bitter water can flow out of the same spring? So neither can a bitter spring produce fresh water.

English RSV (Revised Standard Version)

Does a spring pour forth from the same opening fresh water and brackish?

English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)

Does a spring of water bubble out first with fresh water and then with bitter water?

English Tyndale 1537

Doth a fountain send forth at one place sweet water, and bitter also?

James 3:11 — Compare Translations