James:3 Parallel Bible - DBY WLD BAS |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| | The Darby Online Bible (DBY) | The World English Online Bible (WLD) | The Basic English Online Bible (BAS) |
| James 3:1 | Be not many teachers, my brethren, knowing that we shall receive greater judgment. | Let not many of you be teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive heavier judgment. | Do not all be teachers, my brothers, because we teachers will be judged more hardly than others. |
| James 3:2 | For we all often offend. If any one offend not in word, *he* [is] a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body too. | For in many things we all stumble. If anyone doesn't stumble in word, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also. | For we all go wrong in a number of things. If a man never makes a slip in his talk, then he is a complete man and able to keep all his body in control. |
| James 3:3 | Behold, we put the bits in the mouths of the horses, that they may obey us, and we turn round their whole bodies. | Indeed, we put bits into the horses' mouths so that they may obey us, and we turn about their whole body. | Now if we put bits of iron into horses' mouths so that they may be guided by us, we have complete control of their bodies. |
| James 3:4 | Behold also the ships, which are so great, and driven by violent winds, are turned about by a very small rudder, wherever the pleasure of the helmsman will. | Behold, the ships also, though they are so big and are driven by fierce winds, are yet turned about by a very small rudder, wherever the pilot desires. | And again ships, though they are so great and are moved by violent winds, are turned by a very small guiding-blade, at the impulse of the man who is using it. |
| James 3:5 | Thus also the tongue is a little member, and boasts great things. See how little a fire, how large a wood it kindles! | So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. Behold, how much wood is kindled by how small a fire! | Even so the tongue is a small part of the body, but it takes credit for great things. How much wood may be lighted by a very little fire! |
| James 3:6 | and the tongue [is] fire, the world of unrighteousness; the tongue is set in our members, the defiler of the whole body, and which sets fire to the course of nature, and is set on fire of hell. | And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna. | And the tongue is a fire; it is the power of evil placed in our bodies, making all the body unclean, putting the wheel of life on fire, and getting its fire from hell. |
| James 3:7 | For every species both of beasts and of birds, both of creeping things and of sea animals, is tamed and has been tamed by the human species; | For every kind of animal, bird, creeping thing, and thing in the sea, is tamed, and has been tamed by mankind. | For every sort of beast and bird and every living thing on earth and in the sea has been controlled by man and is under his authority; |
| James 3:8 | but the tongue can no one among men tame; [it is] an unsettled evil, full of death-bringing poison. | But nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. | But the tongue may not be controlled by man; it is an unresting evil, it is full of the poison of death. |
| James 3:9 | Therewith bless we the Lord and Father, and therewith curse we men made after [the] likeness of God. | With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who are made in the image of God. | With it we give praise to our Lord and Father; and with it we put a curse on men who are made in God's image. |
| James 3:10 | Out of the same mouth goes forth blessing and cursing. It is not right, my brethren, that these things should be thus. | Out of the same mouth comes forth blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so. | Out of the same mouth comes blessing and cursing. My brothers, it is not right for these things to be so. |
| James 3:11 | Does the fountain, out of the same opening, pour forth sweet and bitter? | Does a spring send forth from the same opening fresh and bitter water? | Does the fountain send from the same outlet sweet and bitter water? |
| James 3:12 | Can, my brethren, a fig produce olives, or a vine figs? Neither [can] salt [water] make sweet water. | Can a fig tree, my brothers, yield olives, or a vine figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh water. | Is a fig-tree able to give us olives, my brothers, or do we get figs from a vine, or sweet water from the salt sea? |
| James 3:13 | Who [is] wise and understanding among you; let him shew out of a good conversation his works in meekness of wisdom; | Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show his deeds done in gentleness of wisdom by his good life. | Who has wisdom and good sense among you? let him make his works clear by a life of gentle wisdom. |
| James 3:14 | but if ye have bitter emulation and strife in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth. | But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don't boast and don't lie against the truth. | But if you have bitter envy in your heart and the desire to get the better of others, have no pride in this, talking falsely against what is true. |
| James 3:15 | This is not the wisdom which comes down from above, but earthly, natural, devilish. | This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic. | This wisdom is not from heaven, but is of the earth and the flesh and the Evil One. |
| James 3:16 | For where emulation and strife [are], there [is] disorder and every evil thing. | For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed. | For where envy is, and the desire to get the better of others, there is no order, but every sort of evil-doing. |
| James 3:17 | But the wisdom from above first is pure, then peaceful, gentle, yielding, full of mercy and good fruits, unquestioning, unfeigned. | But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. | But the wisdom which is from heaven is first holy, then gentle, readily giving way in argument, full of peace and mercy and good works, not doubting, not seeming other than it is. |
| James 3:18 | But [the] fruit of righteousness in peace is sown for them that make peace. | Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace. | And the fruit of righteousness is planted in peace for those who make peace. |
| | The Darby Online Bible (DBY) | The World English Online Bible (WLD) | The Basic English Online Bible (BAS) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
