James 3:12

Can a fig-tree, my brethren, yield olives, or a vine yield figs? No; and neither can salt water yield sweet.

By their fruits you will easily recognize them. Are grapes gathered from thorns or figs from brambles?

"Either grant the tree to be wholesome and its fruit wholesome, or the tree poisonous and its fruit poisonous; for the tree is known by its fruit.

"There is no good tree that yields unsound fruit, nor again any unsound tree that yields good fruit.

Now if the firstfruits of the dough are holy, so also is the whole mass; and if the root of a tree is holy, so also are the branches.

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Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.

By their fruits you will easily recognize them. Are grapes gathered from thorns or figs from brambles?

"Either grant the tree to be wholesome and its fruit wholesome, or the tree poisonous and its fruit poisonous; for the tree is known by its fruit.

"There is no good tree that yields unsound fruit, nor again any unsound tree that yields good fruit.

Now if the firstfruits of the dough are holy, so also is the whole mass; and if the root of a tree is holy, so also are the branches.