James 3
1 Many teachers become not, my brethren, having known that greater judgment we shall receive,
LET there not be many teachers among you, my brethren, but know that a greater condemnation we incur.
2 for we all make many stumbles; if any one in word doth not stumble, this one [is] a perfect man, able to bridle also the whole body;
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 lo, the bits we put into the mouths of the horses for their obeying us, and their whole body we turn about;
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 lo, also the ships, being so great, and by fierce winds being driven, are led about by a very small helm, whithersoever the impulse of the helmsman doth counsel,
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 little member, and doth boast greatly; lo, a little fire how much wood it doth kindle!
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, 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 the gehenna. (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 every nature, both of beasts and of fowls, both of creeping things and things of the sea, is subdued, and hath been subdued, by the human nature,
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 and the tongue no one of men is able to subdue, [it is] an unruly evil, 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 do bless the God and Father, and with it we do curse the men made according to the similitude 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 out of the same mouth doth come forth blessing and cursing; it doth not need, my brethren, these things so to happen;
and from the same mouth go forth curses and blessings. My brethren, it is not fit that these should so be done.
11 doth the fountain out of the same opening pour forth the sweet and the bitter?
Can it be that one fountain shall send forth waters sweet and bitter?
12 is a fig-tree able, my brethren, olives to make? or a vine figs? so no fountain salt and sweet water [is able] to make.
Or can the fig-tree, my brethren, make olives, or the vines figs? thus also salt waters cannot be made sweet.
13 Who [is] wise and intelligent among you? let him shew out of the good behaviour his works in meekness of wisdom,
Who of you is wise and instructed? let him show his works in good conversations in meek wisdom.
14 and if bitter zeal ye have, and rivalry in your heart, glory not, nor lie against 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 this wisdom is not descending from above, but earthly, physical, demon-like,
because this wisdom from above descendeth not; but is earthly, from the reasonings of the soul, and from demons.
16 for where zeal and rivalry [are], there is insurrection and every evil matter;
For where there are envy and contention, there also are tumult and every thing that is evil.
17 and the wisdom from above, first, indeed, is pure, then peaceable, gentle, easily entreated, full of kindness and good fruits, uncontentious, and unhypocritical: —
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 the righteousness in peace is sown to those making peace.
But the fruits of righteousness in quietness are sown by them who make peace.
