James 3:1-6
CAUTION AGAINST FALSE ACTIVITY IN TEACHING AND THE USE OF THE TONGUE. The danger of teaching and much speaking:... [ Continue Reading ]
CAUTION AGAINST FALSE ACTIVITY IN TEACHING AND THE USE OF THE TONGUE. The danger of teaching and much speaking:... [ Continue Reading ]
MY BRETHREN, BE NOT MANY MASTERS, KNOWING THAT WE SHALL RECEIVE THE GREATER CONDEMNATION.... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
BEHOLD, WE PUT BITS IN THE HORSES' MOUTHS THAT THEY MAY OBEY US, AND WE TURN ABOUT THEIR WHOLE BODY.... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
EVEN SO THE TONGUE IS A LITTLE MEMBER AND BOASTETH GREAT THINGS. BEHOLD, HOW GREAT A MATTER A LITTLE FIRE KINDLETH!... [ Continue Reading ]
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. It seems that in many of the congregations, which were composed largely of Jewish Christians, the custom of per... [ Continue Reading ]
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;... [ Continue Reading ]
Warning against the abuse of the tongue:... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT THE TONGUE CAN NO MAN TAME; IT IS AN UNRULY EVIL, FULL OF DEADLY POISON.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEREWITH BLESS WE GOD, EVEN THE FATHER, AND THEREWITH CURSE WE MEN, WHICH ARE MADE AFTER THE SIMILITUDE OF GOD.... [ Continue Reading ]
OUT OF THE SAME MOUTH PROCEEDETH BLESSING AND CURSING. MY BRETHREN, THESE THINGS OUGHT NOT SO TO BE... [ Continue Reading ]
DOTH A FOUNTAIN SEND FORTH AT THE SAME PLACE SWEET WATER AND BITTER?... [ Continue Reading ]
CAN THE FIG-TREE, MY BRETHREN, BEAR OLIVE-BERRIES? EITHER A VINE, FIGS? SO CAN NO FOUNTAIN BOTH YIELD SALT WATER AND FRESH. It may seem, perhaps, that the orator is here carried away by his subject; but any one that has observed the terrible effect of slandering and defaming which is done in our day... [ Continue Reading ]
WHO IS A WISE MAN AND ENDUED WITH KNOWLEDGE AMONG YOU? LET HIM SHOW OUT OF A GOOD CONVERSATION HIS WORKS WITH MEEKNESS OF WISDOM.... [ Continue Reading ]
Warning against strife:... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT IF YE HAVE BITTER ENVYING AND STRIFE IN YOUR HEARTS, GLORY NOT, AND LIE NOT AGAINST THE TRUTH.... [ Continue Reading ]
THIS WISDOM DESCENDETH NOT FROM ABOVE, BUT IS EARTHLY, SENSUAL, DEVILISH.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR WHERE ENVYING AND STRIFE IS, THERE IS CONFUSION AND EVERY EVIL WORK.... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE FRUIT OF RIGHTEOUSNESS IS SOWN IN PEACE OF THEM THAT MAKE PEACE. The apostle now makes a direct application of the lessons contained in the first part of the chapter: Who is wise and intelligent among you? Let him show his works out of an excellent conduct in the meekness of wisdom. Christi... [ Continue Reading ]