James 3:12

Can a fig-tree, my brethren, bear olives, or a vine figs? Neither can salt water yield fresh.

The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)

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 the fountain, out of the same opening, send forth the sweet and the bitter?

13Who is wise and endued with knowledge among you? Let him show, out of his good deportment, his works in meekness of wisdom.

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Cross References

Matthew 7:16Ye shall know them from their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles?

Luke 6:43For there is no good tree that bears corrupt fruit, nor corrupt tree that bears 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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