12. Can the fig tree, my brethren, produce olive berries? or the vine, figs? In the same manner no fountain can yield both salt water and fresh.
13. Who is wise and ready among you? let him show out of a good conversation his works in meekness of wisdom.
14. But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, boast not and do not be liars against the truth.
15. This wisdom is not that which descends from above, but is earthly, natural, diabolical.
16. For where there is envy and contention, there is confusion and every perverse work.
17. But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, modest, benevolent, full of mercy and of good fruits, not judgmental, unfeigned.