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From the Blue Letter Bible
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Jam 3:12 — Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so [can] no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.
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Isa 5:2 |
And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes. |
  
  
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Isa 5:3 |
And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard. |
  
  
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Isa 5:4 |
What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes? |
  
  
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Jer 2:21 |
Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me? |
  
  
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Mat 7:16 |
Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? |
  
  
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Mat 7:17 |
Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. |
  
  
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Mat 7:18 |
A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither [can] a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. |
  
  
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Mat 7:19 |
Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. |
  
  
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Mat 7:20 |
Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. |
  
  
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Mat 12:33 |
Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by [his] fruit. |
  
  
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Luk 6:43 |
For a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit; neither doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. |
  
  
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Luk 6:44 |
For every tree is known by his own fruit. For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes. |
  
  
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Rom 11:16 |
For if the firstfruit [be] holy, the lump [is] also [holy]: and if the root [be] holy, so [are] the branches. |
  
  
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Rom 11:17 |
And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree; |
  
  
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Rom 11:18 |
Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee. |
  
  
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Exd 15:23 |
And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they [were] bitter: therefore the name of it was called Marah. |
  
  
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Exd 15:24 |
And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink? |
  
  
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Exd 15:25 |
And he cried unto the LORD; and the LORD shewed him a tree, [which] when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet: there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them, |
  
  
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2Ki 2:19 |
And the men of the city said unto Elisha, Behold, I pray thee, the situation of this city [is] pleasant, as my lord seeth: but the water [is] naught, and the ground barren. |
  
  
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2Ki 2:20 |
And he said, Bring me a new cruse, and put salt therein. And they brought [it] to him. |
  
  
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2Ki 2:21 |
And he went forth unto the spring of the waters, and cast the salt in there, and said, Thus saith the LORD, I have healed these waters; there shall not be from thence any more death or barren [land]. |
  
  
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2Ki 2:22 |
So the waters were healed unto this day, according to the saying of Elisha which he spake. |
  
  
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Eze 47:8 |
Then said he unto me, These waters issue out toward the east country, and go down into the desert, and go into the sea: [which being] brought forth into the sea, the waters shall be healed. |
  
  
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Eze 47:9 |
And it shall come to pass, [that] every thing that liveth, which moveth, whithersoever the rivers shall come, shall live: and there shall be a very great multitude of fish, because these waters shall come thither: for they shall be healed; and every thing shall live whither the river cometh. |
  
  
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Eze 47:10 |
And it shall come to pass, [that] the fishers shall stand upon it from Engedi even unto Eneglaim; they shall be a [place] to spread forth nets; their fish shall be according to their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceeding many. |
  
  
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Eze 47:11 |
But the miry places thereof and the marishes thereof shall not be healed; they shall be given to salt. |
Cite This Page: (explanation of citations)
Scott, Thomas. "James 3:12," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. . <http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/Jam/3/12.html>.

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