James 3
1 Not, many teachers, become ye, my brethren, knowing that, a severer sentence, shall ye receive;
My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.
2 For, oft, are we stumbling, one and all: If anyone, in word, doth not stumble, the same, is a mature man, able to curb even 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 Now, if, the horses bits, into their mouths, we thrust, to the end they may be yielding to us, their whole body also, do we turn about.
Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body.
4 Lo! the ships also, large as they are, and, by rough winds, driven along, are turned about by a very small helm, whithersoever the impulse of the steersman inclineth.
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 yet, of great things, maketh boast. Lo! how small a fire, kindleth, how great a forest;
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, —[as], the world of unrighteousness, the tongue, becometh fixed among our members, that which defileth the whole body and setteth on fire the wheel of our natural life, 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 wild beasts and of birds, both of reptiles and of things in the sea, is to be tamed, and hath been tamed, 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, the tongue, none of mankind can, tame, —A restless mischief! Full of deadly poison
But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
9 Therewith, are we blessing our Lord and Father, and, therewith, we are cursing the men who, after the likeness of God, have been brought into being!
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, come forth blessing and cursing! Not meet, my brethren, for, these things, thus, to be coming to pass!
Out of the same mouth proceeds blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.
11 Doth, the fountain, out of the same opening, teem forth the sweet and the bitter?
Does a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?
12 Is it possible, my brethren, for, a fig-tree, to produce, olives, or, a vine, figs? Neither can, salt, water yield, sweet.
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 well-instructed among you? Let him show, out of his comely behaviour, his works, 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 But, if, bitter jealousy, ye have, and rivalry, in your hearts; be not boasting and showing yourselves false 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 one, from above, coming down, but is earthly, born of the soul, demoniacal!
This wisdom descends not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.
16 For, where jealousy and rivalry are, there, are anarchy and every ignoble deed.
For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
17 But, the wisdom from above, is—first pure, then peaceable, reasonable, easy to be entreated, fraught with mercy and good fruits, without partiality, without hypocrisy.
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, in harvest of righteousness, with peace, is sown by them that make peace.
And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.
