11. Does a fountain emit, out of the same opening, both sweet and bitter water?
12. My brothers, can the fig tree yield grapes? Or the vine, figs? Then neither is salt water able to produce fresh water.
13. Who is wise and well-taught among you? Let him show, by means of good conversation, his work in the meekness of wisdom.
14. But if you hold a bitter zeal, and if there is contention in your hearts, then do not boast and do not be liars against the truth.
15. For this is not wisdom, descending from above, but rather it is earthly, beastly, and diabolical.
16. For wherever envy and contention is, there too is inconstancy and every depraved work.
17. But within the wisdom that is from above, certainly, chastity is first, and next peacefulness, meekness, openness, consenting to what is good, a plenitude of mercy and good fruits, not judging, without falseness.
18. And so the fruit of justice is sown in peace by those who make peace.