James 3:12

Webster's Bible (1833)

Can a fig tree, my brothers, yield olives, or a vine figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh water.

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  • Luke 6:43-44 : 43 For there is no good tree that brings forth rotten fruit; nor again a rotten tree that brings forth good fruit. 44 For each tree is known by its own fruit. For people don't gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather grapes from a bramble bush.
  • Matt 7:16-20 : 16 By their fruits you will know them. Do you gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles? 17 Even so, every good tree produces good fruit; but the corrupt tree produces evil fruit. 18 A good tree can't produce evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree produce good fruit. 19 Every tree that doesn't grow good fruit is cut down, and thrown into the fire. 20 Therefore, by their fruits you will know them.
  • Matt 12:33 : 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.
  • Rom 11:16-18 : 16 If the first fruit is holy, so is the lump. If the root is holy, so are the branches. 17 But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them, and became partaker with them of the root and of the richness of the olive tree; 18 don't boast over the branches. But if you boast, it is not you who support the root, but the root supports you.
  • Jer 2:21 : 21 Yet I had planted you a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then are you turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me?
  • Ezek 47:8-9 : 8 Then said he to me, These waters issue forth toward the eastern region, and shall go down into the Arabah; and they shall go toward the sea; into the sea [shall the waters go] which were made to issue forth; and the waters shall be healed. 9 It shall happen, that every living creature which swarms, in every place where the rivers come, shall live; and there shall be a very great multitude of fish; for these waters are come there, and [the waters of the sea] shall be healed, and everything shall live wherever the river comes. 10 It shall happen, that fishermen shall stand by it: from En Gedi even to En Eglaim shall be a place for the spreading of nets; their fish shall be after their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceeding many. 11 But the miry places of it, and the marshes of it, shall not be healed; they shall be given up to salt.
  • Exod 15:23-25 : 23 When they came to Marah, they couldn't drink from the waters of Marah, for they were bitter. Therefore the name of it was called Marah.{Marah means bitter.} 24 The people murmured against Moses, saying, "What shall we drink?" 25 Then he cried to Yahweh. Yahweh shown him a tree, and he threw it into the waters, and the waters were made sweet. There he made a statute and an ordinance for them, and there he tested them;
  • 2 Kgs 2:19-22 : 19 The men of the city said to Elisha, Behold, we pray you, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord sees: but the water is bad, and the land miscarries. 20 He said, Bring me a new jar, and put salt therein. They brought it to him. 21 He went forth to the spring of the waters, and cast salt therein, and said, Thus says Yahweh, I have healed these waters; there shall not be from there any more death or miscarrying. 22 So the waters were healed to this day, according to the word of Elisha which he spoke.
  • Isa 5:2-4 : 2 He dug it up, Gathered out its stones, Planted it with the choicest vine, Built a tower in its midst, And also cut out a winepress therein. He looked for it to yield grapes, But it yielded wild grapes. 3 "Now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, Please judge between me and my vineyard. 4 What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? Why, when I looked for it to yield grapes, did it yield wild grapes?

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  • Jas 3:10-11
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    10Out of the same mouth comes forth blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.

    11Does a spring send out from the same opening fresh and bitter water?

  • Luke 6:43-44
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    43For there is no good tree that brings forth rotten fruit; nor again a rotten tree that brings forth good fruit.

    44For each tree is known by its own fruit. For people don't gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather grapes from a bramble bush.

  • Matt 7:16-19
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    16By their fruits you will know them. Do you gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles?

    17Even so, every good tree produces good fruit; but the corrupt tree produces evil fruit.

    18A good tree can't produce evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree produce good fruit.

    19Every tree that doesn't grow good fruit is cut down, and thrown into the fire.

  • Jas 3:13
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    13Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good conduct that his deeds are done in gentleness of wisdom.

  • Judg 9:9-13
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    9But the olive tree said to them, Should I leave my fatness, with which by me they honor God and man, and go to wave back and forth over the trees?

    10The trees said to the fig tree, Come you, and reign over us.

    11But the fig tree said to them, Should I leave my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to wave back and forth over the trees?

    12The trees said to the vine, Come you, and reign over us.

    13The vine said to them, Should I leave my new wine, which cheers God and man, and go to wave back and forth over the trees?

  • Matt 12:33-35
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    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.

    34You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.

    35The good man out of his good treasure brings out good things, and the evil man out of his evil treasure{TR adds "of the heart"} brings out evil things.

  • Song 4:15
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    15A fountain of gardens, A well of living waters, Flowing streams from Lebanon. Beloved

  • Job 8:11
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    11"Can the papyrus grow up without mire? Can the rushes grow without water?

  • Luke 13:6-7
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    6He spoke this parable. "A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it, and found none.

    7He said to the vine dresser, 'Behold, these three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and found none. Cut it down. Why does it waste the soil?'

  • Prov 18:4
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    4The words of a man's mouth are like deep waters. The fountain of wisdom is like a flowing brook.

  • Prov 5:15-16
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    15Drink water out of your own cistern, Running water out of your own well.

    16Should your springs overflow in the streets, Streams of water in the public squares?

  • Prov 25:26
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    26Like a muddied spring, and a polluted well, So is a righteous man who gives way before the wicked.

  • Jer 17:8
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    8For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, who spreads out its roots by the river, and shall not fear when heat comes, but its leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.

  • Matt 21:19
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    19Seeing a fig tree by the road, he came to it, and found nothing on it but leaves. He said to it, "Let there be no fruit from you forever!" Immediately the fig tree withered away.

  • Joel 1:12
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    12The vine has dried up, and the fig tree withered; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, Even all of the trees of the field are withered; For joy has withered away from the sons of men.

  • Hab 3:17
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    17For though the fig tree doesn't flourish, Nor fruit be in the vines; The labor of the olive fails, The fields yield no food; The flocks are cut off from the fold, And there is no herd in the stalls:

  • Job 14:8-9
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    8Though the root of it grows old in the earth, And the stock of it dies in the ground;

    9Yet through the scent of water it will bud, And put forth boughs like a plant.

  • John 15:4
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    4Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can't bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me.

  • Ezek 17:8
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    8It was planted in a good soil by many waters, that it might bring forth branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a goodly vine.

  • Jer 2:13
    67%

    13For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

  • Luke 14:34
    67%

    34Salt is good, but if the salt becomes flat and tasteless, with what do you season it?

  • Luke 3:9
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    9Even now the axe also lies at the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that doesn't bring forth good fruit is cut down, and thrown into the fire."

  • Joel 2:22
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    22Don't be afraid, you animals of the field; For the pastures of the wilderness spring up, For the tree bears its fruit. The fig tree and the vine yield their strength.

  • Isa 1:30
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    30For you shall be as an oak whose leaf fades, And as a garden that has no water.

  • Job 15:33
    66%

    33He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, And shall cast off his flower as the olive tree.

  • Ezek 15:2
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    2Son of man, what is the vine tree more than any tree, the vine-branch which is among the trees of the forest?

  • Song 2:13
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    13The fig tree ripens her green figs. The vines are in blossom; They give forth their fragrance. Arise, my love, my beautiful one, And come away. Lover

  • Jas 3:17
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    17But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

  • Heb 6:7
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    7For the land which has drunk the rain that comes often on it, and brings forth a crop suitable for them for whose sake it is also tilled, receives blessing from God;

  • Mark 11:13
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    13Seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came to see if perhaps he might find anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs.

  • Job 6:15
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    15My brothers have dealt deceitfully as a brook, As the channel of brooks that pass away;

  • Ps 1:3
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    3He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, That brings forth its fruit in its season, Whose leaf also does not wither. Whatever he does shall prosper.

  • Prov 15:4
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    4A gentle tongue is a tree of life, But deceit in it crushes the spirit.

  • Matt 3:10
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    10"Even now the axe lies at the root of the trees. Therefore, every tree that doesn't bring forth good fruit is cut down, and cast into the fire.

  • Amos 6:12
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    12Do horses run on the rocky crags? Does one plow there with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison, And the fruit of righteousness into bitterness;

  • Prov 27:19
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    19As water reflects a face, So a man's heart reflects the man.