James 3:12
My friends, a fig tree can't produce olives, and a vine can't produce figs, any more than a salt water spring can produce fresh water!
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In Context
11Does a spring send both sweet and bitter water out of the same opening?
Cross References
2 Kings 2:19The townspeople said to Elisha, “Look, sir, while our town has a good location as you can see, the water is bad and the soil is poor.”
Jeremiah 2:21I was the one who planted you like the finest vine, grown from the very best seed. How could you degenerate into a useless wild vine?
Matthew 7:16You can recognize them by their fruits. Do people harvest grapes from thorn bushes, or figs from thistles?
Luke 6:43A good tree doesn't produce bad fruit, and a bad tree doesn't 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 →