James 3:12
Is a fig-tree able to give us olives, my brothers, or do we get figs from a vine, or sweet water from the salt sea?
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
In Context
11Does the fountain send from the same outlet sweet and bitter water?
13Who has wisdom and good sense among you? let him make his works clear by a life of gentle wisdom.
Cross References
2 Kings 2:19Now the men of the town said to Elisha, You see that the position of this town is good; but the water is bad, causing the young of the cattle to come to birth dead.
Jeremiah 2:21But when you were planted by me, you were a noble vine, in every way a true seed: how then have you been changed into the branching plant of a strange vine?
Matthew 7:16By their fruits you will get knowledge of them. Do men get grapes from thorns or figs from thistles?
Luke 6:43For no good tree gives bad fruit, and no bad tree gives 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 →