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For the sun has risen with its burning heat, and has withered the grass, and its flower has fallen, and the comeliness of its look has perished: thus the rich also shall wither in his goings.

Verse ConceptsFutilityHeatMoney, Attitudes ToPlantsStrength, HumanThe SunWeather, As God's JudgmentGrass WitheredHot WeatherScorchingNo Beauty

are you not thus partial among yourselves, and form your decision from bad reasonings?

Verse ConceptsMan Differentiatingdiscriminationmotives

Thus speak and thus act as those who are going to be judged by the law of liberty.

Verse ConceptsLet Your Speech Be GoodThe Law Of ChristOne's DeedsFreedomFree Willlawactingfree

Not many [of you] should become teachers [serving in an official teaching capacity], my brothers and sisters, for you know that we [who are teachers] will be judged by a higher standard [because we have assumed greater accountability and more condemnation if we teach incorrectly].

Verse ConceptsBeing A TeacherDoctrine, CommunicatedLove, Abuse OfPreaching, Importance OfTeachersWatchfulness, Of LeadersFew In The KingdomAccountabilityJudgmentsResponsibilityJudgement DayJudgementJudging Others Actionscondemnation

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.

Verse Conceptsevil, origins ofHell, As Incentive To ActionThe Human BodyGehennaDamage To The BodyFire Of EvilPeople Being PollutedBeware Of Your SpeechMighty in its influenceThe TongueThe Power Of Words

Out of the same mouth goeth forth blessing and cursing. These things, my brethren, ought not to be thus.

Verse ConceptsBlessedCursingAbusive MarriagesBlessing And CurseUngodly CursingThe TongueBlessing OthersSwearingcurses

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

Verse ConceptsGrapesBad WaterSourness

But if you cherish bitter feelings of jealousy and rivalry in your hearts, do not pride yourselves on it and thus belie the truth.

Verse ConceptsBeing BitterBraggingLyingDo Not Be ProudBitternessEthicslieing