Most Popular Bible Verses in James 3
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Not many should become teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive greater judgment.
Behold also the ships, being so great and driven by fierce winds, are guided about by a very small rudder, wherever the impulse of the man who steers determines.
Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show from his good behavior his works in mildness of wisdom.
But the wisdom from above is indeed first pure, then peaceful, meek, easily entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and non-hypocritical.
For we all stumble in many things. If any man does not stumble in word, this is a perfect man, able also to bridle the whole body.
And the tongue is a fire, the world of unrighteousness. Thus, the tongue is made to lead among our body-parts, defiling the whole body, and setting the cycle of nature on fire, and being set on fire by hell.
By it we bless the God and Father, and by it we curse men, who were made according to a likeness of God.
For every species, both of beasts and of birds, both of creeping things and things in the sea, is tamed, and has been tamed by the human species.
A fig tree, my brothers, cannot make olives, or a grapevine figs. In the same way, no one spring makes water salty and sweet.
Out of the same mouth proceeds blessing and curse. My brothers, these things ought not to happen this way.
Behold we put bits into the mouths of horses for them to obey us, and we guide about their whole body.
So also the tongue is a little body-part, and boasts greatly. Behold a little fire, how much wood it kindles.
But if ye have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not boast, and do not lie against the truth.
For where envy and selfish ambition are, there is instability and every evil deed.
But no man is able to tame the tongue of men, an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.