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 offend not in speech, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also.
3 behold, the bits we put into the mouths of the horses for their obeying us, and we direct their whole body;
For when we put the bits into the horses' mouths, that they may obey us, we turn about also 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 are so great, and driven by fierce winds, are yet turned about with a very small rudder, whithersoever the steersman chooseth.
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 boasteth great things. Behold, how great a forest a little fire kindleth!
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! The tongue among our members is that which defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the wheel of life, and is itself 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 things in the sea, is tamed and hath been tamed by 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 a restless 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 the Lord and Father, and therewith curse we men, who have been made after 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 proceedeth 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?
Doth a fountain from the same opening send forth 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 a fig-tree, my brethren, bear olives, or a vine, figs? Neither can salt water yield 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 endued with knowledge among you P let him show out of a good course of conduct his works in 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 ye have bitter rivalry and strife in your hearts, do not glory and lie against the truth.
15 this wisdom is not descending from above, but earthly, physical, demon-like,
This wisdom is not that which descendeth from above, but earthly, sensual, devilish.
16 for where zeal and rivalry [are], there is insurrection and every evil matter;
For where there is rivalry and strife, 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 from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, 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 by those who make peace.
