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James|3:1|-|Do not become many |1a|teachers, my |b|brothers, knowing that we will receive greater |2c|judgment.
James|3:2|-|For in many things we all stumble. If anyone does not stumble in |a|word, this one is a |b|perfect man, able to |c|bridle the whole body as well.
James|3:3|-|Now if we put |a|bridles into the mouths of horses that they would obey us, we direct their whole body as well.
James|3:4|-|Behold, the ships also, though they are so great and are driven by rough winds, are directed by a very small rudder wherever the impulse of the pilot wills.
James|3:5|-|So also the |a|tongue is a little member yet boasts great things. Behold, how great a forest so little a |1|fire ignites!
James|3:6|-|And the tongue is a |1a|fire; the very world of unrighteousness, the tongue is set among our members as that which |b|contaminates the whole body and sets on fire the |2|course of life and is set on fire by |3|Gehenna.
James|3:7|-|For every nature, both of beasts and of birds, both of reptiles and of creatures of the sea, is tamed and has been tamed by the human |1|nature;
James|3:8|-|But the tongue no one among men is able to tame; it is a |1|restless evil, full of deadly |a|poison.
James|3:9|-|With it we bless the Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made according to the |a|likeness of God.
James|3:10|-|Out of the same mouth come forth blessing and cursing. These things, my brothers, ought not to be so.
James|3:11|-|Does the spring, out of the same |1|opening, gush forth the sweet and the bitter?
James|3:12|-|Can a fig tree, my brothers, produce olives? Or a vine, |a|figs? Neither can |1|salt water produce sweet.
James|3:13|-|Who is |a|wise and understanding among you? Let him show |1|by his |b|good manner of life his |2c|works in |3d|meekness of |e|wisdom.
James|3:14|-|But if you have bitter |a|jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not boast and lie against the |b|truth.
James|3:15|-||1|This wisdom is not that which descends from |a|above, but is |2|earthly, |b|soulish, |c|demonic.
James|3:16|-|For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there |a|disorder and every worthless practice are.
James|3:17|-|But the |1a|wisdom from above is first |b|pure, then |c|peaceable, |2|forbearing, |3|compliant, full of |d|mercy and good |e|fruit, |f|impartial, |g|without hypocrisy.
James|3:18|-|And the |1a|fruit of righteousness is |b|sown in |c|peace |2|by those who |d|make peace.
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