James 3:12

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

Cross References

Jeremiah 2:21

Yet I planted you a choice vine, wholly of pure seed. How then have you turned 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 wayside he went to it, and found nothing on it but leaves only. And 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 fresh water and brackish?