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James 3:12

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

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  1. James 3:10

    Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.

  2. James 3:11

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

  3. James 3:13

    Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.

  4. James 3:14

    But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.