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| James 3:1 | My brethren, be not many teachers, 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. | Do not all be teachers, my brothers, because we teachers will be judged more hardly than others. |
| James 3:2 | For in many things we all offend. If any man offendeth not in word, the same is a perfect man, 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 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 bits in the mouths of horses, 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 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 though they are so great, and are driven by fierce winds, yet they are turned about with a very small helm, withersoever the governor willeth. | 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. | 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 | 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. | 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 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 from 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; 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 kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of animals in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed by 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 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 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 may not be controlled by man; it is an unresting evil, it is full of the poison of death. |
| James 3:9 | With this we bless God, even the Father; and with this we curse men, who 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. | 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 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 comes blessing and cursing. My brothers, it is not right for these things to be so. |
| 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? | Does the fountain send from the same outlet sweet and bitter water? |
| James 3:12 | Can the fig-tree, my brethren, bear olive-berries? or a vine, figs? so no fountain can yield both 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. | 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 a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him show by a good deportment 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 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 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 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 wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, demoniacal. | 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 from heaven, but is of the earth and the flesh and the Evil One. |
| 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 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 that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, 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 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 | And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by 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 planted in peace for those who make peace. |
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