James 3
1 Not, many teachers, become ye, my brethren, knowing that, a severer sentence, shall ye receive;
Let there not be many teachers among you, my brethren; but know ye, that we are obnoxious to, a severer judgment.
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 we all offend in many things. Whoever offendeth not in discourse, is a perfect man, who can also keep his whole body in subjection.
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 bridles into the mouth of horses, 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.
Huge ships also, when strong winds drive them, are turned about by a small timber, to what place the pleasure of the pilot looketh.
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;
So likewise the tongue is a small member, and it exalteth itself. Also a little fire inflameth large forests.
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)
Now the tongue is a fire, and the world of sin is like a forest. And this tongue, which is one among our members, marreth our whole body; and it inflameth the series of our generations that roll on like a wheel; and it is itself on fire. (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 all natures of beasts and birds and reptiles, of the sea or land, are subjugated by the nature of man.
8 But, the tongue, none of mankind can, tame, —A restless mischief! Full of deadly poison
But the tongue hath no one been able to tame: it is an evil thing, not coercible, and 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!
For with it, we bless the Lord and Father; and with it we curse men, who were made in the image 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!
and from the same mouth, proceed curses and blessings. My brethren, these things ought not to be so.
11 Doth, the fountain, out of the same opening, teem forth the sweet and the bitter?
Can there flow from the same fountain, sweet waters 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.
Or can the fig-tree, my brethren, bear olives? or the vine, figs? So also salt waters cannot be made sweet.
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 wise and instructed among you? Let him show his works in praiseworthy actions, with modest 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 bitter envy be in you, or contention in your hearts, exalt not yourselves against the truth, and lie not.
15 This wisdom is not one, from above, coming down, but is earthly, born of the soul, demoniacal!
For this wisdom cometh not down from above; but is earthly, and from the devices of the soul, and from demons.
16 For, where jealousy and rivalry are, there, are anarchy and every ignoble deed.
For where envy and contention are, there also is confusion, and every thing wrong.
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 which is from above, is pure, and full of peace, and mild, and submissive, and full of compassion and of good fruits, and without partiality, and without respect of persons.
18 And, in harvest of righteousness, with peace, is sown by them that make peace.
And the fruits of righteousness are sown in stillness, by them who make peace.
