James:3:1-12
rsv@James:3:1 @ Let not many of you become teachers, my brethren, for you know that we who teach shall be judged with greater strictness.
rsv@James:3:2 @ For we all make many mistakes, and if any one makes no mistakes in what he says he is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also.
rsv@James:3:3 @ If we put bits into the mouths of horses that they may obey us, we guide their whole bodies.
rsv@James:3:4 @ Look at the ships also; though they are so great and are driven by strong winds, they are guided by a very small rudder wherever the will of the pilot directs.
rsv@James:3:5 @ So the tongue is a little member and boasts of great things. How great a forest is set ablaze by a small fire!
rsv@James:3:6 @ And the tongue is a fire. The tongue is an unrighteous world among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the cycle of nature, and set on fire by hell.
rsv@James:3:7 @ For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and sea creature, can be tamed and has been tamed by humankind,
rsv@James:3:8 @ but no human being can tame the tongue--a restless evil, full of deadly poison.
rsv@James:3:9 @ With it we bless the Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who are made in the likeness of God.
rsv@James:3:10 @ From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brethren, this ought not to be so.
rsv@James:3:11 @ Does a spring pour forth from the same opening fresh water and brackish?
rsv@James:3:12 @ Can a fig tree, my brethren, yield olives, or a grapevine figs? No more can salt water yield fresh.
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