James 3:12

Julia E. Smith Translation 1876

The fig tree, my brethren, cannot make olives, or the vine, figs: so no fountain can make salt and sweet water.

Cross References

Jeremiah 2:21

And I planted thee a vine of purple grapes, wholly a true seed: and how didst thou turn to me the removings of a strange vine?

Matthew 12:33

Either make the tree good, and its fruit good; or make the tree rotten, and its fruit rotten; for the tree is known by its fruit.

Matthew 21:19

And having seen one fig tree by the way, he came to it, and found nothing on it, except leaves only; and he says to it, Let no more fruit be from thee forever. And instantly the fig tree was dried up.

James 3:11

Much less from the same aperture does a fountain bubble out sweet and bitter?