NO SPRING YIELDS BOTH SALT WATER AND FRESH (James 3:11-12)
This passage should not be confused with a similar one in Matthew 7:16-20. There we are warned against expecting good fruit from bad trees. Evil men can only produce wicked works. Here we are warned against using the tongue to produce two opposite kinds of fruit. No spring gives fresh water and bitter at the same time. The tongue should not do so either. A fig tree cannot produce olives, and a grapevine cannot bear figs. No spring can yield salt water and fresh water at the same time. It must be one or the other. These lessons from nature are intended to remind us that our speech should be consistently good. James puts us on trial as far as our speech is concerned!
This passage should not be confused with a similar one in Matthew 7:16-20. There we are warned against expecting good fruit from bad trees. Evil men can only produce wicked works. Here we are warned against using the tongue to produce two opposite kinds of fruit. No spring gives fresh water and bitter at the same time. The tongue should not do so either. A fig tree cannot produce olives, and a grapevine cannot bear figs. No spring can yield salt water and fresh water at the same time. It must be one or the other. These lessons from nature are intended to remind us that our speech should be consistently good. James puts us on trial as far as our speech is concerned!
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