James 3
1 Do not become many teachers, my brothers, because you know well that we teachers shall be judged by a severer standard than others.
LET there not be many teachers among you, my brethren, but know that a greater condemnation we incur.
2 For in many respects we often stumble. If any man never stumbles in speech, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body as well.
For (in) many we all offend. Every one who in word offendeth not, this is a perfect man, who is able to make subject also all his body.
3 When we put bits in the mouths of horses to make them obey us, we control their whole body also.
For, behold, bridles into the mouth of horses we throw that we may make them submissive to us, and their whole body we turn.
4 Look at the ships too, though they are so large, even when driven by fierce winds they are turned by a very small rudder, wherever the impulse of the helmsman wills.
Also the mighty ships, while the furious winds drive them, by a little wood are turned about to the region which the will of him who guideth doth contemplate.
5 So also the tongue is a small member and makes great boasts. Behold, how great a forest is set on fire by a little spark!
So also the tongue is a small member, and uplifteth itself. A little fire also burneth many forests;
6 And the tongue is a fire; it is a very world of iniquity among our members, defiling the whole body, and setting on fire the wheel of nature, and is itself set on fire by hell. (Geenna g1067)
and the tongue is a fire, a world of sin, like a forest is the tongue itself among our members; it defileth all of our body, and burneth the course of our generations which run (forward) as a wheel, and kindleth also itself with fire. (Geenna g1067)
7 For while every kind of beast and bird, and of reptiles and sea- creatures are tamable, and actually have been tamed by mankind,
For every nature of animals, and of birds, and reptiles of the sea, and of the dry land, have been subjected to the human nature;
8 no man can tame the tongue, restless evil that it is, full of deadly poison.
but the tongue no one can subdue; this is an evil not ordered, (and) full of the poison of death.
9 With it we continually bless our Lord and Father, and with it we are accustomed to curse men made in the image of God.
For by it we bless the Lord and the Father, and by it we curse men who in the likeness of Aloha were made;
10 From out of the same mouth pour forth blessings and cursings! My brothers, this ought not to be so.
and from the same mouth go forth curses and blessings. My brethren, it is not fit that these should so be done.
11 Does a spring pour forth from the same opening sweet water and bitter?
Can it be that one fountain shall send forth waters sweet and bitter?
12 Can a fig tree, my brothers, bear olives; or a grape-vine, figs? No more can salt water yield fresh water.
Or can the fig-tree, my brethren, make olives, or the vines figs? thus also salt waters cannot be made sweet.
13 Who among you is wise and intelligent? Let him show his deeds by his good life, in the meekness of wisdom.
Who of you is wise and instructed? let him show his works in good conversations in meek wisdom.
14 But if you have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, do not be boasting of that, and be false to the truth.
But if you have bitter envy among yourselves, or contention be in your hearts, be not inflated against the truth, nor lie;
15 Such wisdom is not that which is descending from on high, but is earthly, sensual, demonlike.
because this wisdom from above descendeth not; but is earthly, from the reasonings of the soul, and from demons.
16 For wherever jealousy and faction exist, there is confusion and every evil deed.
For where there are envy and contention, there also are tumult and every thing that is evil.
17 But the wisdom which comes from on high is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, conciliatory, overflowing with mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without insincerity.
But the wisdom that is from above is pure, and full of peace, and meekness, and obedience, and full of mercies and good fruits, and is without division, and faces accepteth not.
18 And the fruit of righteousness is being sown in peace by those who are working peace.
But the fruits of righteousness in quietness are sown by them who make peace.
