James 3:11

Can it be that one fountain shall send forth waters sweet and bitter?

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

In The King James Version

Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?

In Context

10and from the same mouth go forth curses and blessings. My brethren, it is not fit that these should so be done.

12Or can the fig-tree, my brethren, make olives, or the vines figs? thus also salt waters cannot be made sweet.

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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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