The Letter from James, Chapter 3
{3:1} Let not many of you be teachers, my brothers, knowing that we
will receive heavier judgment. {3:2} For in many things we all
stumble. If anyone doesn't stumble in word, the same is a perfect man,
able to bridle the whole body also. {3:3} Indeed, we put bits into the
horses' mouths so that they may obey us, and we guide their whole
body. {3:4} Behold, the ships also, though they are so big and are
driven by fierce winds, are yet guided by a very small rudder,
wherever the pilot desires. {3:5} So the tongue is also a little
member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a
large forest! {3:6} And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity
among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and
sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by
[1>]Gehenna.[<1] {3:7} For every kind of animal, bird, creeping thing,
and thing in the sea, is tamed, and has been tamed by mankind. {3:8}
But nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly
poison. {3:9} With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we
curse men, who are made in the image of God. {3:10} Out of the same
mouth comes forth blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things
ought not to be so. {3:11} Does a spring send out from the same
opening fresh and bitter water? {3:12} Can a fig tree, my brothers,
yield olives, or a vine figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water
and fresh water.
{3:13} Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his
good conduct that his deeds are done in gentleness of wisdom. {3:14}
But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart,
don't boast and don't lie against the truth. {3:15} This wisdom is not
that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and
demonic. {3:16} For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is
confusion and every evil deed. {3:17} But the wisdom that is from
above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy
and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. {3:18} Now
the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.
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Footnotes:
[1] {3:6} Gehenna is a name that describes a burning Hell with rotting
bodies and unclean things in it
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