James 3:12

King James 3 - The Literal Traslation

My brothers, a fig tree is not able to produce olives, or a vine figs. So neither can a fountain produce both salt and sweet water.

Cross References

Jeremiah 2:21

Yet I planted you a choice vine, wholly a true seed. And how have you turned into shoots of an alien vine to Me?

Matthew 12:33

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

Matthew 21:19

And seeing one fig tree by the road, He went up to it, and found nothing on it except leaves only. And He said to it, Let there be no more fruit from you forever. And the fig tree immediately dried up.

James 3:11

The fountain does not send forth the sweet and the bitter out of the same hole, does it?