James 3:11

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Does a spring pour forth both sweet and bitter water from the same opening?

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    12Can a fig tree, my brothers, bear olives, or a grapevine produce figs? Neither can a salt spring yield fresh water.

    13Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show his works by his good conduct with the humility that comes from wisdom.

    14But if you have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not boast and deny the truth.

  • Jas 3:8-10
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    8but no one can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.

    9With it we bless the Lord and Father, and with it we curse people who are made in the likeness of God.

    10Out of the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things should not be this way.

  • Prov 18:4
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    4The words of a person's mouth are like deep waters; the fountain of wisdom is like a flowing stream.

  • Prov 5:15-16
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    15Drink water from your own cistern, flowing water from your own well.

    16Should your springs be scattered abroad, your streams of water in the public squares?

  • Prov 25:26
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    26Like a muddied spring or a polluted fountain is a righteous person who gives way before the wicked.

  • Matt 12:33-35
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    33Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree bad and its fruit bad, for a tree is known by its fruit.

    34You brood of vipers! How can you speak good things when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

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  • Rom 3:14
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    14Their mouths are full of curses and bitterness.

  • Matt 7:17-18
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    17In the same way, every good tree produces good fruit, but a bad tree produces bad fruit.

    18A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot produce good fruit.

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    15You are a spring of gardens, a well of fresh water, flowing streams from Lebanon.

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    11The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life, but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.

  • Jer 2:13
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    13For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns—broken cisterns that cannot hold water.

  • Luke 6:43-45
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    43No good tree bears bad fruit, nor does a bad tree bear good fruit.

    44Each tree is recognized by its own fruit. People do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they pick grapes from bramble bushes.

    45A good person brings good things out of the good stored up in their heart, and an evil person brings evil things out of the evil stored up in their heart. For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.

  • Lam 3:38
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    38Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that both calamities and good come?

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    8who turned the rock into a pool, the hard stone into a spring of water.

  • Prov 15:4
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    4A soothing tongue is a tree of life, but a perverse tongue crushes the spirit.

  • Job 15:13
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    13That you turn your spirit against God and let words escape from your mouth?

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    10He sends springs into the valleys; they flow between the mountains.

  • John 4:11
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    11The woman said to him, "Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. Where then do you get this living water?

  • Job 12:11
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    11"Does not the ear test words as the palate tastes its food?"

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    7All streams flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full. To the place where the streams come from, there they return again.

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    19As water reflects the face, so the heart reflects the person.

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    30Is there injustice on my tongue? Can my palate not discern disaster?

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    16Have you journeyed to the springs of the sea or walked in the recesses of the deep?

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    15"If He holds back the waters, they dry up; if He sends them out, they overwhelm the earth."

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    14Starting a quarrel is like letting out water; so stop the dispute before it breaks out.

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  • Matt 15:17-18
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    17Don’t you see that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and then is expelled into the latrine?

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    31The mouth of the righteous brings forth wisdom, but a perverse tongue will be cut off.

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    16How much less is a man, who is detestable and corrupt, one who drinks iniquity like water!

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    15A continual dripping on a rainy day and a contentious wife are alike.

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    5The purposes of a person's heart are deep waters, but a person of understanding draws them out.

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    35He turns the desert into pools of water, and a dry land into flowing springs.