James 3:12

Good News Translation

A fig tree, my friends, cannot bear olives; a grapevine cannot bear figs, nor can a salty spring produce sweet water.

Cross References

Jeremiah 2:21

I planted you like a choice vine from the very best seed. But look what you have become! You are like a rotten, worthless vine.

Matthew 12:33

“To have good fruit you must have a healthy tree; if you have a poor tree, you will have bad fruit. A tree is known by the kind of fruit it bears.

Matthew 21:19

He saw a fig tree by the side of the road and went to it, but found nothing on it except leaves. So he said to the tree, “You will never again bear fruit!” At once the fig tree dried up.

James 3:11

No spring of water pours out sweet water and bitter water from the same opening.