James 3
1 Do not let many be teachers, my brothers, having known that we will receive greater judgment,
My brethren, be not many masters, 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 offend all. If any man offend not in word, (logos) the same is a perfect man, and 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 in the 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 though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, anywhere the governor decides.
5 so also the tongue is a little member, and boasts greatly; behold, how much forest a little fire kindles!
Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasts great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindles!
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, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of 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, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and has been tamed of mankind:
8 but no one of men is able to subdue the tongue—[it is] an unruly evil, full of deadly poison;
But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, 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;
Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the embodiment 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 proceeds blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things 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 at the same place 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 olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield 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 a wise man and imbued with knowledge among you? let him show out of a good conversation his works with 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 all of 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 descends not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.
16 for where zeal and rivalry [are], there is insurrection and every evil matter;
For where envying and strife is, there is confusion 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, and easy to be implored, 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 the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.
