ASV - James - 3

3:1  Be not manyof youteachers, my brethren, knowing that we shall receive heavier judgment.

3:2  For in many things we all stumble. If any stumbleth not in word, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also.

3:3  Now if we put the horses’ bridles into their mouths that they may obey us, we turn about their whole body also.

3:4  Behold, the ships also, though they are so great and are driven by rough winds, are yet turned about by a very small rudder, whither the impulse of the steersman willeth.

3:5  So the tongue also is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how much wood is kindled by how small a fire!

3:6  And the tongue is a fire: the world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the wheel of nature, and is set on fire by hell.

3:7  For every kind of beasts and birds, of creeping things and things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed by mankind:

3:8  but the tongue can no man tame; it is a restless evil, it is full of deadly poison.

3:9  Therewith bless we the Lord and Father; and therewith curse we men, who are made after the likeness of God:

3:10  out of the same mouth cometh forth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.

3:11  Doth the fountain send forth from the same opening sweet water and bitter?

3:12  can a fig tree, my brethren, yield olives, or a vine figs? neither can salt water yield sweet.

3:13  Who is wise and understanding among you? let him show by his good life his works in meekness of wisdom.

3:14  But if ye have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, glory not and lie not against the truth.

3:15  This wisdom is not a wisdom that cometh down from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.

3:16  For where jealousy and faction are, there is confusion and every vile deed.

3:17  But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without variance, without hypocrisy.

3:18  And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace for them that make peace.