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| James 3:1 | 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. | Be not many teachers, my brethren, knowing that we shall receive greater judgment. |
| James 3:2 | 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. | For we all often offend. If any one offend not in word, *he* [is] a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body too. |
| James 3:3 | 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. | Behold, we put the bits in the mouths of the horses, that they may obey us, and we turn round their whole bodies. |
| James 3:4 | 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. | 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. |
| James 3:5 | 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! | Thus also the tongue is a little member, and boasts great things. See how little a fire, how large a wood it kindles! |
| James 3:6 | 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. | 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. |
| James 3:7 | 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; | 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; |
| James 3:8 | 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. | but the tongue can no one among men tame; [it is] an unsettled evil, full of death-bringing poison. |
| James 3:9 | 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. | Therewith bless we the Lord and Father, and therewith curse we men made after [the] likeness of God. |
| James 3:10 | 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. | Out of the same mouth goes forth blessing and cursing. It is not right, my brethren, that these things should be thus. |
| James 3:11 | 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? | Does the fountain, out of the same opening, pour forth sweet and bitter? |
| James 3:12 | 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? | Can, my brethren, a fig produce olives, or a vine figs? Neither [can] salt [water] make sweet water. |
| James 3:13 | 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. | Who [is] wise and understanding among you; let him shew out of a good conversation his works in meekness of wisdom; |
| James 3:14 | 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. | but if ye have bitter emulation and strife in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth. |
| James 3:15 | 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. | This is not the wisdom which comes down from above, but earthly, natural, devilish. |
| James 3:16 | 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. | For where emulation and strife [are], there [is] disorder and every evil thing. |
| James 3:17 | 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. | But the wisdom from above first is pure, then peaceful, gentle, yielding, full of mercy and good fruits, unquestioning, unfeigned. |
| James 3:18 | 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. | But [the] fruit of righteousness in peace is sown for them that make peace. |
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