James 3:12 Cross References - Coverdale

¹² Can the fygge tree, my Brethren, beare oliue beries: ether a vyne beare fygges?

²³ Then came they to Marath, but they coude not drinke ye water for bytternes, for it was very bytter. Therfore was it called Marah, (yt is bytternes.) ²⁴ Then ye people murmured against Moses, & sayde: What shal we drynke? ²⁵ And Moses cried vnto ye LORDE, which shewed him a tre: this he put in ye water, the was it swete. There he made the a statute, and a lawe, and tempted them,

¹⁹ And the men of the cite sayde vnto Eliseus: Beholde, there is good dwellynge in this cite, as my lorde seyth, but the water is euell, and the londe vnfrutefull. ²⁰ He sayde: Bringe me hither a new vessell, & put salt in it. And they broughte it him. ²¹ Then wete he forth vnto the well of water, and cast the salt therin, & sayde: Thus sayeth the LORDE: I haue healed this water: from hence forth shal there no deed ner vnfrutefulnes come of it. ²² So the water was healed vnto this daye, acordinge to the worde of Eliseus which he spake.

² This he hedged, this he walled rounde aboute, and planted it with goodly grapes. In the myddest of it buylded he a towre, and made a wyne presse therin And afterwarde when he loked yt it shulde bringe him grapes, it brought forth thornes. ³ I shewe you now my cause (o ye Citysens of Ierusalem and whole Iuda:) Iudge I praye you betwixte me: and my wynegardinge. ⁴ What more coude haue bene done for it, that I haue not done? Wherfore then hath it geuen thornes, where I loked to haue had grapes of it?

²¹ where as I planted the out of noble grapes and good rotes. How art thou turned then into a bytter, vnfrutefull, and straunge grape?

⁸ Then sayde he vnto me: This water that floweth out towarde the east, and runneth downe in to the playne felde, commeth in to the see: and from the see it runneth out, & maketh the waters whole. ⁹ Yee all that liue and moue, where vnto this ryuer commeth, shal recouer. And where this water cometh, there shalbe many fysh. For all that commeth to this water, shall be lusty and whole. ¹⁰ By this riuer shal the fy?shers stonde from Engaddi vnto En Eglaim, & there sprede out their nettes: for there shalbe greate heapes of fysh, like as in the mayne see. ¹¹ As for his claye and pyttes, they shal not be whole, for why, it shalbe occupide for salt.

¹⁶ Ye shall knowe them by their frutes. Do men gather grapes of thornes? or figges of thistles? ¹⁷ Euen so euery good tree bryngeth forth good frute. But a corrupte tree, bryngeth forth euyl frute, ¹⁸ A good tree can not bryng forth bad frute: nother can a rotten tre bringe forth good frute. ¹⁹ Euery tre that bryngeth not forth good frute, shalbe hewen downe, and cast into the fyre. ²⁰ Wherfore by their frutes ye shall knowe them.

³³ Either make the tre good and his frute good also, or els make the tre euel & his frute euel also. For the tre is knowne by the frute.

⁴³ For it is no good tre, yt bryngeth forth euell frute: and no euell tre yt bringeth forth good frute. ⁴⁴ Euery tre is knowne by his frute. For me gather not fygges of thornes, ner grapes of busshes.

¹⁶ Yf the begynnynge be holy, then is all ye dowe holy: and yf the rote be holy, then are the braunches holy also. ¹⁷ But though some of ye braunches now be broke, and thou, wha thou wast a wylde olyue tre,art grafte in amonge them, and made partaker of the rote and sappe of the olyue tre, ¹⁸ boost not thy selfe agaynst the braunches. Yf thou boost thy selfe agaynst them, then bearest not thou the rote, but the rote beareth the.