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James 3 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 3:1 - Let not many of you become teachers, my brethren, for you know that we who teach shall be judged with greater strictness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 3:3 - If we put bits into the mouths of horses that they may obey us, we guide their whole bodies.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 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!

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 3:7 - For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and sea creature, can be tamed and has been tamed by humankind,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 3:8 - but no human being can tame the tongue--a restless evil, full of deadly poison.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 3:9 - With it we bless the Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who are made in the likeness of God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 3:10 - From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brethren, this ought not to be so.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 3:11 - Does a spring pour forth from the same opening fresh water and brackish?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 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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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 3:13 - Who is wise and understanding among you? By his good life let him show his works in the meekness of wisdom.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 3:14 - But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 3:15 - This wisdom is not such as comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, devilish.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 3:16 - For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 3:17 - But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, without uncertainty or insincerity.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 3:18 - And the harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.
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Source: Transcribed from: The Holy Bible: Revised Standard Version containing the Old and New Testaments, translated from the original tongues: being the version set forth A.D. 1611, revised A.D. 1881-1885 and A.D. 1901: compared with the most ancient authorities and revised A.D. 1946-52. — 2nd ed. of New Testament A.D. 1971. There should be enough in the rest of the description to identify the text.

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James Chapter 3 — Additional Translations:

King James Version New King James Version New Living Translation New International Version English Standard Version Christian Standard Bible New American Standard Bible 2020 New American Standard Bible 1995 Legacy Standard Bible Amplified Bible New English Translation American Standard Version Young's Literal Translation Darby Translation Webster's Bible Hebrew Names Version Latin Vulgate Morphological Greek New Testament Textus Receptus Smith Van Dyck Arabic Bible Open New Arabic Version Reina Valera 1909 Reina-Valera 1960 Bible in Basic English Chinese Traditional Union Espanol Moderno Korean Holy Bible Louis Segond German Luther Russian Synodal Translation Sagradas Escrituras