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<A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/3-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Is a fig tree able, my brothers, to make olives? Or a vine figs? Neither is salty [water able] to have made sweet water.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/3-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Who [is] wise and intelligent among you? Let him show his works out of good behavior in meekness of wisdom, <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/3-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>yet, if you have bitter zeal, and rivalry in your heart, do not glory, nor lie against the truth; <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/3-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>this wisdom is not descending from above, but earthly, physical, demon-like, <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/3-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>for where zeal and rivalry [are], there is insurrection and every evil matter; <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/3-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>but the wisdom from above, first, indeed, is pure, then peaceable, gentle, well-convinced, full of kindness and good fruits, uncontentious, and unhypocritical— <span class="reftext"><a href="/james/3-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>and the fruit of righteousness in peace is sown to those making peace.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Literal Standard Version<br>Copyright © 2022 by Covenant Press. 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