The Letter from Ya`akov, 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 turn about their whole
body. {3:4} Behold, the ships also, though they are so big and are
driven by fierce winds, are yet turned about by a very small rudder,
wherever the pilot desires. {3:5} So the tongue is also a little
member, and boasts 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 defiles the whole
body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by
Gehinnom. {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 his
deeds done in gentleness of wisdom by his good life. {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 shalom by those who make shalom.
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