Popular Bible Verses from James 3

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But the wisdom that is frae Aboon is first to purify, than peaceable and cannie; easy to be entreatit, fuʼ oʼ mercy and gude frutes; wiʼ nae puʼin doon; and aefauld.

Wha is wyss and weel‐learʼd amang ye? let him schaw oot oʼ a gude life his warks, in a wyss meekness.

But the seed oʼ richtousness is sawn in peace, by thae wha mak peace.

For whaur‐eʼer selliness and rivalry are, thar are taiglements and aʼ vile deeds.

Whaur‐by we bless God the Faither; and whaur‐by we ban men, made conform to Godʼs likeness. Oot oʼ the ae mooth comes forth blessin and cursin! It isna bonnie, my brethren, for sic things to be!

And the tongue is a fire, a warld oʼ wickedness! The tongue is amang oor pairts as that whilk defiles the hail body; and sets a‐lowe the wheel oʼ oor nateral life, and is set a‐lowe by hell!

But the tongue nane oʼ mankind can tame: a restless ill, fuʼ oʼ deidly pushion

Become‐na, mony oʼ ye, teachers, my brethren; kenninʼ that we sal hae the heavier judgment.