James 3:12

It is not possible, my brothers, for a fig tree to produce olives, or a vine to produce figs, is it? Thus no spring is able to produce both salt and sweet water. 1 Wisdom from Above

English Majority Text (NT)

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

11The spring does not pour forth from the same opening both the sweet and the bitter water, does it?

13Is there anyone wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good conduct that his works are in meekness of wisdom.

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Cross References

Matthew 7:16You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grape clusters from thorns, or figs from thistles?

Luke 6:43“For a good tree does not produce corrupt fruit, nor does a corrupt 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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