Out of the same mouth proceeds blessing and curse. My brothers, these things ought not to happen this way.

Does the spring pour out from the same opening the sweet and the bitter?

A fig tree, my brothers, cannot make olives, or a grapevine figs. In the same way, no one spring makes water salty and sweet.

Elijah was a man of the same nature as we. And by prayer, he asked for it not to rain, and it did not rain on the earth for three years and six months.