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Taming the Tongue
Be not many teachers, my brethren, knowing that we shall receive greater judgment.
Be not many teachers, my brethren, knowing that we shall receive greater judgment.
Indeed, we all make many mistakes. For if we could control our tongues, we would be perfect and could also control ourselves in every other way.
For we all often offend. If any one offend not in word, *he* [is] a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body too.
We can make a large horse go wherever we want by means of a small bit in its mouth.
Behold, we put the bits in the mouths of the horses, that they may obey us, and we turn round their whole bodies.
And a small rudder makes a huge ship turn wherever the pilot chooses to go, even though the winds are strong.
Behold also the ships, which are so great, and driven by violent winds, are turned about by a very small rudder, wherever the pleasure of the helmsman will.
In the same way, the tongue is a small thing that makes grand speeches.
But a tiny spark can set a great forest on fire.
But a tiny spark can set a great forest on fire.
Thus also the tongue is a little member, and boasts great things. See how little a fire, how large a wood it kindles!
and the tongue [is] fire, the world of unrighteousness; the tongue is set in our members, the defiler of the whole body, and which sets fire to the course of nature, and is set on fire of hell.
People can tame all kinds of animals, birds, reptiles, and fish,
For every species both of beasts and of birds, both of creeping things and of sea animals, is tamed and has been tamed by the human species;
but no one can tame the tongue. It is restless and evil, full of deadly poison.
but the tongue can no one among men tame; [it is] an unsettled evil, full of death-bringing poison.
Sometimes it praises our Lord and Father, and sometimes it curses those who have been made in the image of God.
Therewith bless we the Lord and Father, and therewith curse we men made after [the] likeness of God.
And so blessing and cursing come pouring out of the same mouth. Surely, my brothers and sisters, this is not right!
Out of the same mouth goes forth blessing and cursing. It is not right, my brethren, that these things should be thus.
Does a spring of water bubble out with both fresh water and bitter water?
Does the fountain, out of the same opening, pour forth sweet and bitter?
Can, my brethren, a fig produce olives, or a vine figs? Neither [can] salt [water] make sweet water.
True Wisdom Comes from God
If you are wise and understand God’s ways, prove it by living an honorable life, doing good works with the humility that comes from wisdom.
True Wisdom from Above
Who [is] wise and understanding among you; let him shew out of a good conversation his works in meekness of wisdom;
Who [is] wise and understanding among you; let him shew out of a good conversation his works in meekness of wisdom;
But if you are bitterly jealous and there is selfish ambition in your heart, don’t cover up the truth with boasting and lying.
but if ye have bitter emulation and strife in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth.
For jealousy and selfishness are not God’s kind of wisdom. Such things are earthly, unspiritual, and demonic.
This is not the wisdom which comes down from above, but earthly, natural, devilish.
For wherever there is jealousy and selfish ambition, there you will find disorder and evil of every kind.
For where emulation and strife [are], there [is] disorder and every evil thing.
But the wisdom from above is first of all pure. It is also peace loving, gentle at all times, and willing to yield to others. It is full of mercy and the fruit of good deeds. It shows no favoritism and is always sincere.
But the wisdom from above first is pure, then peaceful, gentle, yielding, full of mercy and good fruits, unquestioning, unfeigned.