James 3:12

A fig tree cannot bear olives, nor a grapevine figs, and salt water cannot yield fresh. The source determines the fruit, and so it is with the tongue.

Cross-references · 9

• Luke 6:43–44For there is no good tree that produces rotten fruit; nor again a rotten tree that produces good fruit.
• Matt 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 its fruit.
• Matt 7:16–20By their fruits you will know them. Do you gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles?
• Jer 2:21Yet I had planted you a noble vine, a pure and faithful seed. How then have you turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me?
• Rom 11:16–18If the first fruit is holy, so is the lump. If the root is holy, so are the branches.
• Isa 5:2–4He dug it up, gathered out its stones, planted it with the choicest vine, built a tower in the middle of it, and also cut out a wine press therein. He looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes.
• Ezek 47:8–11Then he said to me, These waters flow out toward the eastern region, and will go down into the Arabah; and they will go toward the sea; and flow into the sea which will be made to flow out; and the waters will be healed.
• Exod 15:23–25When they came to Marah, they couldn’t drink from the waters of Marah, for they were bitter. Therefore its name was called Marah.
• 2 Kgs 2:19–22The men of the city said to Elisha, “Behold, please, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord sees; but the water is bad, and the land is barren.”

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