James 3:1WEB
Let not many of you be teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive heavier judgment.
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James 3:1WEB
Let not many of you be teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive heavier judgment.
James 3:2WEB
For we all stumble in many things. Anyone who doesn’t stumble in word is a perfect person, able to bridle the whole body also.
James 3:3WEB
Indeed, we put bits into the horses’ mouths so that they may obey us, and we guide their whole body.
James 3:4WEB
Behold, the ships also, though they are so big and are driven by fierce winds, are yet guided by a very small rudder, wherever the pilot desires.
James 3:5WEB
So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest!
James 3:6WEB
And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna.
James 3:7WEB
For every kind of animal, bird, creeping thing, and sea creature is tamed, and has been tamed by mankind;
James 3:8WEB
but nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.
James 3:9WEB
With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men who are made in the image of God.
James 3:10WEB
Out of the same mouth comes blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.
James 3:11WEB
Does a spring send out from the same opening fresh and bitter water?
James 3:12WEB
Can a fig tree, my brothers, yield olives, or a vine figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh water.
James 3:13WEB
Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good conduct that his deeds are done in gentleness of wisdom.
James 3:14WEB
But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and don’t lie against the truth.
James 3:15WEB
This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic.
James 3:16WEB
For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed.
James 3:17WEB
But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
James 3:18WEB
Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.
Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, which is in the public domain.