James 3:9

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Summary

James 3:9

Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.

Therewith

Bless

1 Peter 1:3

Therewith curse

Made

General references

Matthew 15:18

Bible References

Therewith

Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoices: my flesh also shall rest in hope.

To the end that my glory may sing praise to you, and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks unto you forever.

And my tongue shall speak of your righteousness and of your praise all the day long.

Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of your righteousness.

Awake, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early.

They only consult to cast him down from his excellency: they delight in lies: they bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.

My tongue also shall talk of your righteousness all the day long: for they are confounded, for they are brought unto shame, that seek my hurt.

[A song. A Psalm of David.] O God, my heart is fixed; I will sing and give praise, even with my glory.

Therefore did my heart rejoice, and my tongue was glad; moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope:

Bless

Therefore David blessed the LORD before all the congregation: and David said, Blessed be you, LORD God of Israel our father, forever and ever.

[A Psalm of David when he pretended madness before Abimelech, who drove him away, and he departed.] I will bless the LORD at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth.

Thus will I bless you while I live: I will lift up my hands in your name.

[A Psalm of praise of David.] I will extol you, my God, O king; and I will bless your name forever and ever.

Therefore the Lord said, Since this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honor me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his abundant mercy has begotten us again unto a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

Therewith curse

And they went out into the fields, and gathered their vineyards, and trod the grapes, and made merry, and went into the house of their god, and did eat and drink, and cursed Abimelech.

And when king David came to Bahurim, behold, there came out a man of the family of the house of Saul, whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera: he came forth, and cursed continually as he came.

But Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered and said, Shall not Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed the LORD's anointed?

His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.

For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for the cursing and lying which they speak.

As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.

For oftentimes also your own heart knows that you yourself likewise have cursed others.

But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them who despitefully use you, and persecute you;

Then began he to curse and to swear, saying, I know not the man. And immediately the cock crowed.

Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:

Made

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.

This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;

Whoever sheds man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.

For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.

General references

But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.