James 3
1 Be not many teachers, my brethren, knowing that we shall receive greater judgment.
Let there not be many teachers among you, my brethren; but know ye, that we are obnoxious to, a severer judgment.
2 For we all often offend. If any one offend not in word, he [is] a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body too.
For we all offend in many things. Whoever offendeth not in discourse, is a perfect man, who can also keep his whole body in subjection.
3 Behold, we put the bits in the mouths of the horses, that they may obey us, and we turn round their whole bodies.
Behold, we put bridles into the mouth of horses, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body.
4 Behold also the ships, which are so great, and driven by violent winds, are turned about by a very small rudder, wherever the pleasure of the helmsman will.
Huge ships also, when strong winds drive them, are turned about by a small timber, to what place the pleasure of the pilot looketh.
5 Thus also the tongue is a little member, and boasts great things. See how little a fire, how large a wood it kindles!
So likewise the tongue is a small member, and it exalteth itself. Also a little fire inflameth large forests.
6 and the tongue [is] fire, the world of unrighteousness; the tongue is set in our members, the defiler of the whole body, and which sets fire to the course of nature, and is set on fire of hell. (Geenna g1067)
Now the tongue is a fire, and the world of sin is like a forest. And this tongue, which is one among our members, marreth our whole body; and it inflameth the series of our generations that roll on like a wheel; and it is itself on fire. (Geenna g1067)
7 For every species both of beasts and of birds, both of creeping things and of sea animals, is tamed and has been tamed by the human species;
For all natures of beasts and birds and reptiles, of the sea or land, are subjugated by the nature of man.
8 but the tongue can no one among men tame; [it is] an unsettled evil, full of death-bringing poison.
But the tongue hath no one been able to tame: it is an evil thing, not coercible, and full of deadly poison.
9 Therewith bless we the Lord and Father, and therewith curse we men made after [the] likeness of God.
For with it, we bless the Lord and Father; and with it we curse men, who were made in the image of God:
10 Out of the same mouth goes forth blessing and cursing. It is not right, my brethren, that these things should be thus.
and from the same mouth, proceed curses and blessings. My brethren, these things ought not to be so.
11 Does the fountain, out of the same opening, pour forth sweet and bitter?
Can there flow from the same fountain, sweet waters and bitter?
12 Can, my brethren, a fig produce olives, or a vine figs? Neither [can] salt [water] make sweet water.
Or can the fig-tree, my brethren, bear olives? or the vine, figs? So also salt waters cannot be made sweet.
13 Who [is] wise and understanding among you; let him shew out of a good conversation his works in meekness of wisdom;
Who is wise and instructed among you? Let him show his works in praiseworthy actions, with modest wisdom.
14 but if ye have bitter emulation and strife in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth.
But if bitter envy be in you, or contention in your hearts, exalt not yourselves against the truth, and lie not.
15 This is not the wisdom which comes down from above, but earthly, natural, devilish.
For this wisdom cometh not down from above; but is earthly, and from the devices of the soul, and from demons.
16 For where emulation and strife [are], there [is] disorder and every evil thing.
For where envy and contention are, there also is confusion, and every thing wrong.
17 But the wisdom from above first is pure, then peaceful, gentle, yielding, full of mercy and good fruits, unquestioning, unfeigned.
But the wisdom which is from above, is pure, and full of peace, and mild, and submissive, and full of compassion and of good fruits, and without partiality, and without respect of persons.
18 But [the] fruit of righteousness in peace is sown for them that make peace.
And the fruits of righteousness are sown in stillness, by them who make peace.
