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Taming the Tongue
3:1 My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that
we shall receive the greater condemnation.
3:2 For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not
in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle
the whole body.
3:3 Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they
may obey us; and we turn about their whole body.
3:4 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, whithersoever the governor listeth.
3:5 Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth
great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire
kindleth!
3:6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is
the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole
body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is
set on fire of hell.
3:7 For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of
serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been
tamed of mankind:
3:8 But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil,
full of deadly poison.
3:9 Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith
curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.
3:10 Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing.
My brethren, these things ought not so to be.
3:11 Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet
water and bitter?
3:12 Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries?
either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt
water and fresh.
Two Kinds of Wisdom
3:13 Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge
among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works
with meekness of wisdom.
3:14 But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your
hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
3:15 This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly,
sensual, devilish.
3:16 For where envying and strife is, there is confusion
and every evil work.
3:17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then
peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy
and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
3:18 And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of
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