James 3:12

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

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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

11Doth a fountain from the same opening send forth sweet water and bitter?

13Who is wise and endued with knowledge among you P let him show out of a good course of conduct his works in meekness of wisdom.

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Cross References

Jeremiah 2:21Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, Wholly a genuine seed; How then art thou changed to the degenerate shoot of a strange vine?

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

Luke 6:43For there is no good tree that beareth bad fruit; and again, there is no bad tree that beareth 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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