3James 3

1Let not many of you be teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive heavier judgment.Select James 3:1

2For in many things we all stumble. If anyone doesn’t stumble in word, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also.Select James 3:2

3Indeed, we put bits into the horses’ mouths so that they may obey us, and we guide their whole body.Select James 3:3

4Behold, 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.Select James 3:4

5So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest!Select James 3:5

6And 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.Select James 3:6

7For every kind of animal, bird, creeping thing, and thing in the sea, is tamed, and has been tamed by mankind.Select James 3:7

8But nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.Select James 3:8

9With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who are made in the image of God.Select James 3:9

10Out of the same mouth comes blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.Select James 3:10

11Does a spring send out from the same opening fresh and bitter water?Select James 3:11

12Can a fig tree, my brothers, yield olives, or a vine figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh water.Select James 3:12

13Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good conduct that his deeds are done in gentleness of wisdom.Select James 3:13

14But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and don’t lie against the truth.Select James 3:14

15This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic.Select James 3:15

16For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed.Select James 3:16

17But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.Select James 3:17

18Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.Select James 3:18