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| James 3:1 | Let not many of you be teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive heavier judgment. | 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 teachers, my brethren, knowing that we shall receive greater judgment. |
| James 3:2 | 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 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 often offend. If any one offend not in word, *he* [is] a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body too. |
| James 3:3 | Indeed, we put bits into the horses' mouths so 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. | 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 | 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. | 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 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 | So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. Behold, how much wood is kindled by how small a fire! | 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. | 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. 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. 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] 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 every kind of animal, bird, creeping thing, and thing in the sea, is tamed, and has 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 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 nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless 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 one among men tame; [it is] an unsettled evil, full of death-bringing poison. |
| James 3:9 | 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 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 made after [the] likeness of God. |
| James 3:10 | Out of the same mouth comes forth blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so. | Out of the same mouth there proceed blessing and cursing. My brethren, this ought not to be. | 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 | Does a spring send forth from the same opening fresh and bitter water? | In a fountain, are fresh water and bitter sent forth from the same opening? | Does the fountain, out of the same opening, pour forth sweet and bitter? |
| James 3:12 | Can a fig tree, my brothers, yield olives, or a vine figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh water. | Can a fig-tree, my brethren, yield olives, or a vine yield figs? No; and neither can salt water yield sweet. | Can, my brethren, a fig produce olives, or a vine figs? Neither [can] salt [water] make sweet water. |
| James 3:13 | Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show his deeds done in gentleness of wisdom by his good life. | 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 shew out of a good conversation his works in meekness of wisdom; |
| James 3:14 | But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don't boast and don't lie 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 emulation and strife in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth. |
| James 3:15 | This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic. | That is not the wisdom which comes down from above: it belongs to earth, to the unspiritual nature, and to evil spirits. | This is not the wisdom which comes down from above, but earthly, natural, devilish. |
| James 3:16 | For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed. | For where envy and rivalry are, there also are unrest and every vile deed. | For where emulation and strife [are], there [is] disorder and every evil thing. |
| James 3:17 | 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. | 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 from above first is pure, then peaceful, gentle, yielding, full of mercy and good fruits, unquestioning, unfeigned. |
| James 3:18 | Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace. | And peace, for those who strive for peace, is the seed of which the harvest is righteousness. | But [the] fruit of righteousness in peace is sown for them that make peace. |
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