Thematic Bible
James 3:1 (show verse)
Not many should become teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive greater judgment.
James 3:2 (show verse)
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.
James 3:3 (show verse)
Behold we put bits into the mouths of horses for them to obey us, and we guide about their whole body.
James 3:4 (show verse)
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.
James 3:5 (show verse)
So also the tongue is a little body-part, and boasts greatly. Behold a little fire, how much wood it kindles.
James 3:6 (show verse)
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.
James 3:7 (show verse)
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.
James 3:8 (show verse)
But no man is able to tame the tongue of men, an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
James 3:9 (show verse)
By it we bless the God and Father, and by it we curse men, who were made according to a likeness of God.
James 3:10 (show verse)
Out of the same mouth proceeds blessing and curse. My brothers, these things ought not to happen this way.
James 3:11 (show verse)
Does the spring pour out from the same opening the sweet and the bitter?
James 3:12 (show verse)
A fig tree, my brothers, cannot make olives, or a grapevine figs. In the same way, no one spring makes water salty and sweet.
James 3:13 (show verse)
Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show from his good behavior his works in mildness of wisdom.
James 3:14 (show verse)
But if ye have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not boast, and do not lie against the truth.
James 3:15 (show verse)
This wisdom is not descending from above, but is earthly, world-soul, demonic.
James 3:16 (show verse)
For where envy and selfish ambition are, there is instability and every evil deed.
James 3:17 (show verse)
But the wisdom from above is indeed first pure, then peaceful, meek, easily entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and non-hypocritical.
James 3:18 (show verse)
And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace to those who make peace.