11. Does a spring yield at the same opening sweet and bitter water?
12. Can the fig tree, my brothers, bear olives, or a vine, figs? So no spring can yield both salt water and fresh water.
13. Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show his works by his good life in the meekness of wisdom.
14. But if you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, do not boast and do not lie against the truth.
15. This wisdom descends not from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, and devilish.
16. For where there is envying and strife, there is confusion and every evil work.
17. But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
18. And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.