James 3:12

Is a fig tree able, my brothers, to make olives? Or a vine figs? Neither is salty [water able] to have made sweet water.

Literal Standard Version

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 pour forth the sweet and the bitter?

13Who [is] wise and intelligent among you? Let him show his works out of good behavior in meekness of wisdom,

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Cross References

2 Kings 2:19And the men of the city say to Elisha, “Now behold, the site of the city [is] good, as my lord sees, and the waters [are] bad, and the earth sterile.”

Jeremiah 2:21And I planted you [as] a choice vine, wholly of true seed, || And how have you been turned || Into the degenerate shoots of a strange vine to Me?

Matthew 7:16From their fruits you will know them; do [men] gather grapes from thorns? Or figs from thistles?

Luke 6:43For there is not a good tree making bad fruit, nor a bad tree making 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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