James 3:11
A spring does not pour out fresh water and bitter water from the same opening, does it?
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12Can a fig tree produce olives, my brothers and sisters, or a vine produce figs? Neither can a salt water spring produce fresh water.
13True Wisdom Who is wise and understanding among you? By his good conduct he should show his works done in the gentleness that wisdom brings.
14But if you have bitter jealousy and selfishness in your hearts, do not boast and tell lies against the truth.
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8But no human being can subdue 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 made in God’s image.
10From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. These things should not be so, my brothers and sisters.
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4The words of a person’s mouth are like deep waters, and the fountain of wisdom is like a flowing brook.
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15Drink water from your own cistern and running water from your own well.
16Should your springs be dispersed outside, your streams of water in the wide plazas?
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33Trees and Their Fruit“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 known by its fruit.
34Offspring of vipers! How are you able to say anything good, since you are evil? For the mouth speaks from what fills the heart.
35The good person brings good things out of his good treasury, and the evil person brings evil things out of his evil treasury.
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14“Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.”
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17In the same way, every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears bad fruit.
18A good tree is not able to bear bad fruit, nor a bad tree to bear good fruit.
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15You are a garden spring, a well of fresh water flowing down from Lebanon.
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11The speech of the righteous is a fountain of life, but the speech of the wicked conceals violence.
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13“Do so because my people have committed a double wrong: they have rejected me, the fountain of life-giving water, and they have dug cisterns for themselves, cracked cisterns which cannot even hold water.”
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43“For no good tree bears bad fruit, nor again does a bad tree bear good fruit,
44for each tree is known by its own fruit. For figs are not gathered from thorns, nor are grapes picked from brambles.
45The good person out of the good treasury of his heart produces good, and the evil person out of his evil treasury produces evil, for his mouth speaks from what fills his heart.
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38Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that everything comes– both calamity and blessing?
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8who turned a rock into a pool of water, a hard rock into springs of water!
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4Speech that heals is like a life-giving tree, but a perverse speech breaks the spirit.
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13when you turn your rage against God and allow such words to escape from your mouth?
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10He turns springs into streams; they flow between the mountains.
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11“Sir,” the woman said to him,“you have no bucket and the well is deep; where then do you get this living water?
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11Does not the ear test words, as the tongue tastes food?
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7As a well continually pours out fresh water so it continually pours out wicked deeds. Sounds of violence and destruction echo throughout it. All I see are sick and wounded people.’
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7All the streams flow into the sea, but the sea is not full, and to the place where the streams flow, there they will flow again.
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19As in water the face is reflected as a face, so a person’s heart reflects the person.
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33He turned streams into a desert, springs of water into arid land,
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30Is there any falsehood on my lips? Can my mouth not discern evil things?
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16Have you gone to the springs that fill the sea, or walked about in the recesses of the deep?
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23Then they came to Marah, but they were not able to drink the waters of Marah, because they were bitter.(That is why its name was Marah.)
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15If he holds back the waters, then they dry up; if he releases them, they destroy the land.
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14Starting a quarrel is like letting out water; abandon strife before it breaks out!
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13Jesus replied,“Everyone who drinks some of this water will be thirsty again.
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16He caused streams to flow from the rock, and made the water flow like rivers.
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17Don’t you understand that whatever goes into the mouth enters the stomach and then passes out into the sewer?
18But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these things defile a person.
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31The speech of the righteous bears the fruit of wisdom, but the one who speaks perversion will be destroyed.
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16how much less man, who is abominable and corrupt, who drinks in evil like water!
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15A continual dripping on a rainy day– a contentious wife makes herself like that.
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11Can the papyrus plant grow tall where there is no marsh? Can reeds flourish without water?
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15See to it that no one comes short of the grace of God, that no one be like a bitter root springing up and causing trouble, and through it many become defiled.
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5Counsel in a person’s heart is like deep water, but an understanding person draws it out.
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35As for his people, he turned a desert into a pool of water, and a dry land into springs of water.