James 3:12

Can the fig-tree, my brethren, bear olives, or the vine, figs? So no fountain can produce salt water and fresh.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.

In Context

11Does a fountain send forth from the same cavern sweet water and bitter?

13Who is wise and discreet among you? Let him show, by a good behavior, his works, with the meekness of wisdom.

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Cross References

Matthew 7:16By their fruits you will know them. Are grapes gathered from thorns, or figs from thistles?

Luke 6:43For a good tree does not produce unsound fruit; nor does an unsound tree produce good fruit.

Matthew Henry on James 3:2-13

Government of the Tongue. ( a. d. 61.) 1 My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation. 2 For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body. 3 Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body. 4 Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm,… Read the whole commentary →

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