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12 A fig tree is not able, my brothers, to make olives, or a grapevine figs, is it? Neither is salty water able to make sweet water.

Your Speech And Conduct And The Fruit They Produce Reveal The Source of Your Wisdom

13 Who[a] is wise and knowledgeable among you? Let him show from his good conduct his works done in the gentleness of wisdom. 14 But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish-interest[b] in your heart, do not be vaunting[c] and lying against the truth.

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Footnotes

  1. James 3:13 Do you claim to have wisdom and knowledge? What does your fruit say about you?
  2. James 3:14 Or, selfish-ambition, party-spirit.
  3. James 3:14 That is, in claiming to be wise.

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