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| James 3:1 | My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation. | Do not be eager, my brethren, for many among you to become teachers; for you know that we teachers shall undergo severer judgement. | Be not many [of you] teachers, my brethren, knowing that we shall receive heavier judgment. |
| James 3:2 | For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body. | For we often stumble and fall, all of us. If there is any one who never stumbles in speech, that man has reached maturity of character and is able to curb his whole nature. | For in many things we all stumble. If any stumbleth not in word, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also. |
| James 3:3 | Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body. | Remember that we put the horses' bit into their mouths to make them obey us, and so we turn their whole bodies round. | Now if we put the horses' bridles into their mouths that they may obey us, we turn about their whole body also. |
| James 3:4 | Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth. | So too with ships, great as they are, and often driven along by strong gales, yet they can be steered with a very small rudder in whichever direction the caprice of the man at the helm chooses. | Behold, the ships also, though they are so great and are driven by rough winds, are yet turned about by a very small rudder, whither the impulse of the steersman willeth. |
| James 3:5 | Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth! | In the same way the tongue is an insignificant part of the body, but it is immensely boastful. Remember how a mere spark may set a vast forest in flames. | So the tongue also is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how much wood is kindled by how small a fire! |
| James 3:6 | And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell. | And the tongue is a fire. That world of iniquity, the tongue, is placed within us spotting and soiling our whole nature, and setting the whole round of our lives on fire, being itself set on fire by Gehenna. | And the tongue is a fire: the world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the wheel of nature, and is set on fire by hell. |
| James 3:7 | For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: | For brute nature under all its forms beasts and birds, reptiles and fishes can be subjected and kept in subjection by human nature. | For every kind of beasts and birds, of creeping things and things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed by mankind. |
| James 3:8 | But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. | But the tongue no man or woman is able to tame. It is an ever-busy mischief, and is full of deadly poison. | But the tongue can no man tame; [it is] a restless evil, [it is] full of deadly poison. |
| James 3:9 | Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God. | With it we bless the Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who are made in God's likeness. | Therewith bless we the Lord and Father; and therewith curse we men, who are made after the likeness of God: |
| James 3:10 | Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be. | Out of the same mouth there proceed blessing and cursing. My brethren, this ought not to be. | out of the same mouth cometh forth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be. |
| James 3:11 | Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter? | In a fountain, are fresh water and bitter sent forth from the same opening? | Doth the fountain send forth from the same opening sweet [water] and bitter? |
| James 3:12 | Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh. | Can a fig-tree, my brethren, yield olives, or a vine yield figs? No; and neither can salt water yield sweet. | Can a fig tree, my brethren, yield olives, or a vine figs? Neither [can] salt water yield sweet. |
| James 3:13 | Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom. | Which of you is a wise and well-instructed man? Let him prove it by a right life with conduct guided by a wisely teachable spirit. | Who is wise and understanding among you? let him show by his good life his works in meekness of wisdom. |
| James 3:14 | But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. | But if in your hearts you have bitter feelings of envy and rivalry, do not speak boastfully and falsely, in defiance of the truth. | But if ye have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, glory not and lie not against the truth. |
| James 3:15 | This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. | That is not the wisdom which comes down from above: it belongs to earth, to the unspiritual nature, and to evil spirits. | This wisdom is not [a wisdom] that cometh down from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. |
| James 3:16 | For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. | For where envy and rivalry are, there also are unrest and every vile deed. | For where jealousy and faction are, there is confusion and every vile deed. |
| James 3:17 | But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. | The wisdom from above is first of all pure, then peaceful, courteous, not self-willed, full of compassion and kind actions, free from favouritism and from all insincerity. | But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without variance, without hypocrisy. |
| James 3:18 | And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace. | And peace, for those who strive for peace, is the seed of which the harvest is righteousness. | And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace for them that make peace. |
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