James 3:11

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James 3:10-12 The Message (MSG)

My friends, this can’t go on. A spring doesn’t gush fresh water one day and brackish the next, does it? 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?

James 3:11 King James Version (KJV)

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

James 3:11 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)

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

James 3:11 New Century Version (NCV)

Do good and bad water flow from the same spring?

James 3:11 American Standard Version (ASV)

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

James 3:11 New International Version (NIV)

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

James 3:11 New King James Version (NKJV)

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

James 3:11 Amplified Bible (AMP)

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

James 3:11 New Living Translation (NLT)

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

James 3:11-12 The Passion Translation (TPT)

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.

James 3:11 English Standard Version 2016 (ESV)

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