the Week of Proper 23 / Ordinary 28
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James 3:11
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Does a fountain send out from the same opening both fresh and bitter water?
A windmill don't pump good water one minute and sewer water the next, does it?
Does the fountain send from the same outlet sweet and bitter water?
Does the fountain, out of the same opening, pour forth sweet and bitter?
Does a spring send forth from the same opening fresh and bitter water?
Doth a fountain send out of the same place sweet water and bitter?
In a fountain, are fresh water and bitter sent forth from the same opening?
Doeth a fountaine send foorth at the same place sweet water and bitter?
Does the fountain out of the same hole send forth the sweet and the bitter?
Doth a fountayne sende forth at one place swete water and bytter also?
When You Open Your Mouth Don't be in any rush to become a teacher, my friends. Teaching is highly responsible work. Teachers are held to the strictest standards. And none of us is perfectly qualified. We get it wrong nearly every time we open our mouths. If you could find someone whose speech was perfectly true, you'd have a perfect person, in perfect control of life. A bit in the mouth of a horse controls the whole horse. A small rudder on a huge ship in the hands of a skilled captain sets a course in the face of the strongest winds. A word out of your mouth may seem of no account, but it can accomplish nearly anything—or destroy it! It only takes a spark, remember, to set off a forest fire. A careless or wrongly placed word out of your mouth can do that. By our speech we can ruin the world, turn harmony to chaos, throw mud on a reputation, send the whole world up in smoke and go up in smoke with it, smoke right from the pit of hell. This is scary: You can tame a tiger, but you can't tame a tongue—it's never been done. The tongue runs wild, a wanton killer. With our tongues we bless God our Father; with the same tongues we curse the very men and women he made in his image. Curses and blessings out of the same mouth! My friends, this can't go on. A spring doesn't gush fresh water one day and brackish the next, does it? Apple trees don't bear strawberries, do they? Raspberry bushes don't bear apples, do they? You're not going to dip into a polluted mud hole and get a cup of clear, cool water, are you? Do you want to be counted wise, to build a reputation for wisdom? Here's what you do: Live well, live wisely, live humbly. It's the way you live, not the way you talk, that counts. Mean-spirited ambition isn't wisdom. Boasting that you are wise isn't wisdom. Twisting the truth to make yourselves sound wise isn't wisdom. It's the furthest thing from wisdom—it's animal cunning, devilish conniving. Whenever you're trying to look better than others or get the better of others, things fall apart and everyone ends up at the others' throats. Real wisdom, God's wisdom, begins with a holy life and is characterized by getting along with others. It is gentle and reasonable, overflowing with mercy and blessings, not hot one day and cold the next, not two-faced. You can develop a healthy, robust community that lives right with God and enjoy its results only if you do the hard work of getting along with each other, treating each other with dignity and honor.
Does a spring send out from the same opening both fresh and bitter water?
Doth the fountain send forth from the same opening sweet water and bitter?
Does a spring pour forth from the same opening fresh water and brackish?
Doth a fountayne sende forth at one place swete water and bytter also?
Does the fountain send forth from the same opening sweet [water] and bitter?
Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet [water] and bitter?
doth the fountain out of the same opening pour forth the sweet and the bitter?
Do good and bad water flow from the same spring?
A spring does not pour out fresh water and bitter water from the same opening, does it?
Can both fresh water and bitter water flow from the same spring?
Can clean water and dirty water both flow from the same spring?
A spring doesn't send both fresh and bitter water from the same opening, does it?
Does a spring pour forth from the same opening both fresh and salt water?
Doeth a fountaine send forth at one place sweete water and bitter?
Can there spring forth from the same fountain, both sweet water and bitter water?
Does a spring pour out sweet and bitter water from the same opening?
Does a spring send forth from the same opening fresh and bitter water?
A spring cannot pour both fresh and brackish water from the same opening, can it?
Can it be that one fountain shall send forth waters sweet and bitter ?
Can there flow from the same fountain, sweet waters and bitter?
Does a spring send forth fresh water and bitter from the same opening?
Does a spring of water bubble out with both fresh water and bitter water?
Does a well of water give good water and bad water from the same place?
Doth the fountain send forth from the same opening sweet water and bitter?
Does a spring pour forth from the same opening both fresh and brackish water?
Doth, the fountain, out of the same opening, teem forth the sweet and the bitter?
Doth a fountain send forth, out of the same hole, sweet and bitter water?
Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?
A spring does not pour forth from the same opening fresh and bitter water, does it?
Doth a fountayne sende foorth at one place, sweete water, and bitter also?
Do good water and bad water flow from the same spring? Of course not.
Does a spring send out from the same opening both fresh and bitter water?
No spring of water pours out sweet water and bitter water from the same opening.
Whether a welle of the same hoole bringith forth swete and salt watir?
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
place: or, hole, James 3:11
Cross-References
for by the observation of the law no one shall be justified in his sight, since it is the law that takes cognizance of sin.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Doth a fountain send forth at the same place,.... "Or hole"; for at divers places, and at different times, as Pliny m observes, it may send forth
sweet [water] and bitter: and it is reported n, there is a lake with the Trogloditae, a people in Ethiopia, which becomes thrice a day bitter, and then as often sweet; but then it does not yield sweet water and bitter at the same time: this simile is used to show how unnatural it is that blessing and cursing should proceed out of the same mouth.
m Nat. Hist. l. 2. c. 103. n Isodor. Hispal. Originum, l. 13. c. 13. p. 115.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Doth a fountain send forth at the same place - Margin, “hole.” The Greek word means “opening, fissure,” such as there is in the earth, or in rocks from which a fountain gushes.
Sweet water and bitter - Fresh water and salt, James 3:12. Such things do not occur in the works of nature, and they should not be found in man.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 11. Doth a fountain send forth - sweet water and bitter? — In many things nature is a sure guide to man; but no such inconsistency is found in the natural world as this blessing and cursing in man. No fountain, at the same opening, sends forth sweet water and bitter; no fig tree can bear olive berries; no vine can bear figs; nor can the sea produce salt water and fresh from the same place. These are all contradictions, and indeed impossibilities, in nature. And it is depraved man alone that can act the monstrous part already referred to.