James 3:12 — Compare All Translations

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

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.

English ASV

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

English Amplified

Can a fig tree, my brethren, bear olives, or a grapevine figs? Neither can a salt spring furnish fresh water.

English Amplified Classic Bible 1987

Can a fig tree, my brethren, bear olives, or a grapevine figs? Neither can a salt spring furnish fresh water.

English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025

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

English CSB 2017 - Christian Standard Bible

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

English Darby 1890 : Public Domain

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

English EASY 2024

A fig tree cannot give olives, my friends. A vine for grapes cannot give figs. And a salty spring cannot give sweet water.

English ERV 2006 - Only For Website

My brothers and sisters, can a fig tree make olives? Or can a grapevine make figs? No, and a well full of salty water cannot give good water.

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

English GNT (Good News Translation)

A fig tree, my friends, cannot bear olives; a grapevine cannot bear figs, nor can a salty spring produce sweet water.

English God's Word - GW 1995

My brothers and sisters, can a fig tree produce olives? Can a grapevine produce figs? In the same way, a pool of salt water can't produce fresh water.

English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website

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

English KJV 1611

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

English LSB

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

English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)

Can the fig tree, my brothers, bear olives, or a vine, figs? So no spring can yield both salt water and fresh water.

English NASB (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)

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

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

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

English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)

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

English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website

My brothers and sisters, can a fig tree bear olives? Can a grapevine bear figs? Of course not. And a saltwater spring can't produce fresh water either.

English NIV

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

English NKJ 1982

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

English 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.

English NRSV 1989 - Only for website

Can a fig tree, my brothers and sisters, yield olives, or a grapevine figs? No more can salt water yield fresbe

English RSV (Revised Standard Version)

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

English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)

Can you pick olives from a fig tree, or figs from a grape vine? No, and you can't draw fresh water from a salty pool.

English Tyndale 1537

Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries: other(or) a vine bear figs? So can no fountain give both salt water and fresh also.

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