⁹ With it we bless ^(A)our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people, ^(B)who have been made in the likeness of God; ¹⁰ from the same mouth come both blessing and cursing. My brothers and sisters, these things should not be this way. ¹¹ Does a spring send out from the same opening both ^[a]fresh and bitter water? ^12 (C)Can a fig tree, my brothers and sisters, bear olives, or a vine bear figs? Nor can salt water produce ^[b]fresh.