James 3
1 Do not let many be teachers, my brothers, having known that we will receive greater judgment,
My brethren, be not many teachers, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.
2 for we all make many stumbles; if anyone does not stumble in word, this one [is] a perfect man, able to also bridle the whole body;
For in many things we all offend. If any one offends not in word, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle the whole body.
3 behold, the bits we put into the mouths of the horses for their obeying us, and we direct their whole body;
Behold, we put bits into horses mouths that they may obey us, and we turn about their whole body.
4 behold, also the ships, being so great, and being driven by fierce winds, are directed by a very small rudder, wherever the impulse of the [one] steering wills,
Behold also the ships, which are very great, and are driven by violent winds; yet they are turned about by a very small helm, to whatever point the will of him that directs it may determine.
5 so also the tongue is a little member, and boasts greatly; behold, how much forest a little fire kindles!
So, also, the tongue is a little member, and boasts great things. Behold, how great a forest does a little fire set in a blaze.
6 And the tongue [is] a fire, the world of the unrighteousness, so the tongue is set in our members, which is spotting our whole body, and is setting on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna. (Geenna g1067)
And the tongue is a fire, the world of iniquity. So is the tongue placed among our members, defiling the whole body, setting on fire the course of life, and being set on fire by hell. (Geenna g1067)
7 For every nature, both of beasts and of birds, both of creeping things and things of the sea, is subdued, and has been subdued, by the human nature,
For every kind of beasts and of birds, of creeping things and of things in the sea, is tamed, and has been tamed by man:
8 but no one of men is able to subdue the tongue—[it is] an unruly evil, full of deadly poison;
but the tongue no man can tame; it is an unruly evil; it is full of deadly poison.
9 with it we bless the God and Father, and with it we curse the men made according to [the] likeness of God;
With it we bless God, even the Father: and with it we curse men, who are made in the likeness of God.
10 out of the same mouth comes forth blessing and cursing; it does not need, my brothers, these things to so happen;
Out of the same mouth come forth blessing and cursing. These things, my brethren, ought not so to be.
11 does the fountain out of the same opening pour forth the sweet and the bitter?
Does a fountain send forth from the same cavern sweet water and bitter?
12 Is a fig tree able, my brothers, to make olives? Or a vine figs? Neither is salty [water able] to have made sweet water.
Can the fig-tree, my brethren, bear olives, or the vine, figs? So no fountain can produce salt water and fresh.
13 Who [is] wise and intelligent among you? Let him show his works out of good behavior in meekness of wisdom,
Who is wise and discreet among you? Let him show, by a good behavior, his works, with the meekness of wisdom.
14 yet, if you have bitter zeal, and rivalry in your heart, do not glory, nor lie against the truth;
But if you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
15 this wisdom is not descending from above, but earthly, physical, demon-like,
This wisdom comes not from above, but is earthly, animal, demoniac.
16 for where zeal and rivalry [are], there is insurrection and every evil matter;
For where envy and strife are, there is commotion, and every evil work.
17 but the wisdom from above, first, indeed, is pure, then peaceable, gentle, well-convinced, full of kindness and good fruits, uncontentious, and unhypocritical—
But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
18 and the fruit of righteousness in peace is sown to those making peace.
And those who cultivate peace, sow for themselves a harvest of righteousness in peace.
