F.
Bridling the tongue
3:1-12
James 3
:1
3:1
Do not become many
1ateachers, my
bbrothers, knowing that we will receive greater
2cjudgment.
James 3
:2
3:2
For in many things we all stumble. If anyone does not stumble in
aword, this one is a
bperfect man, able to
cbridle the whole body as well.
James 3
:3
3:3
Now if we put
abridles into the mouths of horses that they would obey us, we direct their whole body as well.
James 3
:4
3:4
Behold, the ships also, though they are so great and are driven by rough winds, are directed by a very small rudder wherever the impulse of the pilot wills.
James 3
:5
3:5
So also the
atongue is a little member yet boasts great things. Behold, how great a forest so little a
1fire ignites!
James 3
:6
3:6
And the tongue is a
1afire; the
very world of unrighteousness, the tongue is set among our members as that which
bcontaminates the whole body and sets on fire the
2course of life and is set on fire by
3Gehenna.
James 3
:7
3:7
For every nature, both of beasts and of birds, both of reptiles and of creatures of the sea, is tamed and has been tamed by the human
1nature;
James 3
:8
3:8
But the tongue no one among men is able to tame;
it is a
1restless evil, full of deadly
apoison.
James 3
:9
3:9
With it we bless the Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made according to the
alikeness of God.
James 3
:10
3:10
Out of the same mouth come forth blessing and cursing. These things, my brothers, ought not to be so.
James 3
:11
3:11
Does the spring, out of the same
1opening, gush forth the sweet and the bitter?
James 3
:12
3:12
Can a fig tree, my brothers, produce olives? Or a vine,
afigs? Neither
can 1salt water produce sweet.
G.
Behaving in wisdom
3:13-18
James 3
:13
3:13
Who is
awise and understanding among you? Let him show
1by his
bgood manner of life his
2cworks in
3dmeekness of
ewisdom.
James 3
:14
3:14
But if you have bitter
ajealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not boast and lie against the
btruth.
James 3
:15
3:15
1This wisdom is not that which descends from
aabove, but is
2earthly,
bsoulish,
cdemonic.
James 3
:16
3:16
For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there
adisorder and every worthless practice are.
James 3
:17
3:17
But the
1awisdom from above is first
bpure, then
cpeaceable,
2forbearing,
3compliant, full of
dmercy and good
efruit,
fimpartial,
gwithout hypocrisy.
James 3
:18
3:18
And the
1afruit of righteousness is
bsown in
cpeace 2by those who
dmake peace.
