James 3:12

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Can a fig tree produce olives, my brothers and sisters, or a grapevine produce figs? Neither can a saltwater spring yield fresh water.

Cross References

Matthew 12:33

‘Either make the tree good and its fruit will be good, or make the tree bad   and its fruit will be bad; for a tree is known by its fruit.

Jeremiah 2:21

I planted you, a choice vine from the very best seed. How then could you turn into a degenerate, foreign vine?

Matthew 21:19

Seeing a lone fig tree by the road, he went up to it and found nothing on it except leaves. And he said to it, ‘May no fruit ever come from you again! ’ At once the fig tree withered.

James 3:11

Does a spring pour out sweet and bitter water from the same opening?