11 Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?
12 Can* the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.
James asks the pointed question. He further illustrates it the point and says that for a follower of Christ who has been transformed into HIS image, that these things not only should not be, but as a child of Christ, cannot be!