No one should say when he is tempted, "God is tempting me," because God cannot be tempted by evil and He does not tempt anyone.

But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own evil desire.

Then, when the evil desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin. And when sin is fully grown, it produces [spiritual] death.

are you not making class distinctions among yourselves and judging [people] from evil motives?

And the tongue is [like] a fire [i.e., like that spark]. [For] the tongue, as a part of the body, is [like] the world of evil. It corrupts the entire life [of a person] and inflames the course of nature itself [i.e., it affects a person throughout his whole earthly existence], and is ignited by hell itself [i.e., the evil produced by the fiery tongue has hell as its source and destiny].

but no one can subdue the tongue. It is an uncontrollable [source of] evil and full of deadly poison.

This "wisdom" is not the kind that comes from [God] above, but is earthly, unspiritual and demonic [i.e., it is motivated by an evil spirit and not the Holy Spirit].

For when jealousy and rivalry exist, there is [also] disorder and every [kind of] evil practice.

But, as it is, you people are boasting in your arrogance [and] all such boasting is evil.