mkjv - James:3:1-12

mkjv@James:3:1 @ My brothers, do not be many teachers, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.

mkjv@James:3:2 @ For [in] many [things] we all offend. If anyone does not offend in word, the same [is] a full-grown man, able also to bridle the whole body.

mkjv@James:3:3 @ Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, so that they may obey us, and we turn about their whole body.

mkjv@James:3:4 @ Behold also the ships being so great, and driven by fierce winds, yet they are turned about with a very small rudder, where the impulse of him steering desires.

mkjv@James:3:5 @ Even so the tongue is a little member and boasts great things. Behold how little a fire kindles how large a forest!

mkjv@James:3:6 @ And the tongue [is] a fire, a world of iniquity. So the tongue is set among our members, spotting all the body and inflaming the course of nature, and being inflamed by hell.

mkjv@James:3:7 @ For every kind of animals, and of birds, and of reptiles, and of sea-animals, is tamed, and has been tamed by mankind.

mkjv@James:3:8 @ But no one can tame the tongue, [it is] an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

mkjv@James:3:9 @ By this we bless God, even [the] Father. And by this we curse men, who have come into being according to the image of God.

mkjv@James:3:10 @ Out of the same mouth proceeds blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.

mkjv@James:3:11 @ Does a fountain send forth at the same hole the sweet and the bitter?

mkjv@James:3:12 @ Can the fig tree, my brothers, bear olive berries; or a vine, figs? So no fountain [can] yield both salt water and fresh.