James 3:12

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Can a fig tree, my brothers and sisters, yield olives or a grapevine figs? No more can salt water yield fresh.

Cross References

Jeremiah 2:21

Yet I planted you as a choice vine from the purest stock. How then did you turn degenerate and become a wild vine?

Matthew 12:33

“Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree bad and its fruit bad, for the tree is known by its fruit.

Matthew 21:19

And seeing a fig tree by the side of the road, he went to it and found nothing at all on it but leaves. Then he said to it, “May no fruit ever come from you again!” And the fig tree withered at once.

James 3:11

Does a spring pour forth from the same opening both fresh and brackish water?