James:3:1-12

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* Be not many teachers , my brethren , knowing that we shall receive greater judgment . * For we all often offend . If any one offend not in word , he [is ] a perfect man , able to bridle the whole body too . * Behold , we put the bits in the mouths of the horses , that they may obey us , and we turn round their whole bodies . * 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 . * Thus also the tongue is a little member , and boasts great things . See how little a fire , how large a wood it kindles ! * 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 . * 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 ; * but the tongue can no one among men tame ; [it is ] an unsettled evil , full of death-bringing poison . * Therewith bless we the Lord and Father , and therewith curse we men made after [the ] likeness of God . * Out of the same mouth goes forth blessing and cursing . It is not right , my brethren , that these things should be thus . * Does the fountain , out of the same opening , pour forth sweet and bitter ? * Can , my brethren , a fig produce olives , or a vine figs ? Neither [can ] salt [water ] make sweet water .

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