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Be not many teachers, my brethren, knowing that we shall receive heavier judgment. |
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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. |
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Now if we put the horses- bridles into their mouths, that they may obey us, we turn about their whole body also. |
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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. |
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So the tongue also is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how much wood is kindled by how small a fire! |
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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. |
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For every kind of beasts and birds, of creeping things and things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed by mankind: |
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but the tongue can no man tame; {cf15i it is} a restless evil, {cf15i it is} full of deadly poison. |
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Therewith bless we the Lord and Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the likeness of God: |
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out of the same mouth cometh forth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be. |
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Doth the fountain send forth from the same opening sweet {cf15i water} and bitter? |
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Can a fig tree, my brethren, yield olives, or a vine figs? neither {cf15i can} salt water yield sweet. |
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Who is wise and understanding among you? let him shew by his good life his works in meekness of wisdom. |
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But if ye have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, glory not and lie not against the truth. |
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This wisdom is not {cf15i a wisdom} that cometh down from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. |
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For where jealousy and faction are, there is confusion and every vile deed. |
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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. |
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And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace for them that make peace. |
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