James 3:12

New American Bible - revised edition

Can a fig tree, my brothers, produce olives, or a grapevine figs? Neither can salt water yield fresh. True Wisdom.

Cross References

Jeremiah 2:21

But I had planted you as a choice vine, all pedigreed stock; How could you turn out so obnoxious to me, a spurious vine?

Matthew 12:33

“Either declare the tree good and its fruit is good, or declare the tree rotten and its fruit is rotten, for a tree is known by its fruit.

Matthew 21:19

Seeing a fig tree by the road, he went over to it, but found nothing on it except leaves. And he said to it, “May no fruit ever come from you again.” And immediately the fig tree withered.

James 3:11

Does a spring gush forth from the same opening both pure and brackish water?