James 3:12-14
Living Bible
12 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.
13 If you are wise, live a life of steady goodness so that only good deeds will pour forth. And if you don’t brag about them, then you will be truly wise! 14 And by all means don’t brag about being wise and good if you are bitter and jealous and selfish; that is the worst sort of lie.
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James 3:12-14
New American Standard Bible
12 (A)Can a fig tree, my brothers and sisters, bear olives, or a vine bear figs? Nor can salt water produce [a]fresh.
Wisdom from Above
13 Who among you is wise and understanding? (B)Let him show by his (C)good behavior his deeds in the gentleness of wisdom. 14 But if you have bitter (D)jealousy and [b]selfish ambition in your heart, do not be arrogant and so lie against (E)the truth.
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- James 3:12 Lit sweet
- James 3:14 Or strife
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