James 3:12

New International Version

My brothers and sisters, can a fig tree bear olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Neither can a salt spring produce fresh water.

Cross References

Jeremiah 2:21

I had planted you like a choice vine of sound and reliable stock. How then did you turn against me into a corrupt, wild vine?

Matthew 12:33

“Make a tree good and its fruit will be good, or make a tree bad and its fruit will be bad, for a tree is recognized by its fruit.

Matthew 21:19

Seeing a fig tree by the road, he went up to it but found nothing on it except leaves. Then he said to it, “May you never bear fruit again!” Immediately the tree withered.

James 3:11

Can both fresh water and salt water flow from the same spring?