James 3
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The Tongue
1My brothers, not many of you should become teachers, knowing that we shall receive the greater judgment. # Mt 23:13; Ro 2:20–21 2We all stumble in many ways. But if any man does not stumble in what he says, # Mt 12:37; Jas 1:26 he is a complete man and able also to control the whole body.
3See how we put bits in the mouths of horses that they may obey us, and we control their whole bodies. # Ps 32:9 4And observe ships. Though they are so great and are driven by fierce winds, yet they are directed with a very small rudder wherever the captain pleases. 5Even so, the tongue is a little part of the body and boasts great things. # Ps 73:8–9 See how great a forest a little fire kindles. 6The tongue is a fire, # Pr 16:27 a world of evil. The tongue is among the parts of the body, defiling the whole body, and setting the course of nature on fire, and it is set on fire by hell. # 3:6 Or Gehenna
7All kinds of beasts, and birds, and serpents, and things in the sea are tamed or have been tamed by mankind. 8But no man can tame the tongue. It is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. # Ps 140:3; Ro 3:13
9With it we bless the Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who are made in the image of God. # Ge 1:26–27; 1Co 11:7 10Out of the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so. 11Does a spring yield at the same opening sweet and bitter water? 12Can the fig tree, my brothers, bear olives, or a vine, figs? So no spring can yield both salt water and fresh water.
The Wisdom from Above
13Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show his works by his good life in the meekness of wisdom. # Jas 1:21; 2:18 14But if you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, # 2Co 12:20; Jas 3:16 do not boast and do not lie against the truth. 15This wisdom descends not from above, # Jas 1:17 but is earthly, unspiritual, and devilish. # Jude 19 16For where there is envying and strife, # 1Co 3:3 there is confusion and every evil work.
17But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. # Ro 12:9; Jas 2:4 18And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace. # Pr 11:18; Mt 5:9
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Ya'akov 3
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1Not many of you, Achim b'Moshiach, should be Morim for Moshiach, als (since), as far as concerns Mishpat Hashem, you have da'as that we Messianic morim will have the chomer haDin (rigor of the Law) fall on us more severely.
2For all of us stumble variously. If anyone as far as lashon hora is concerned, does not stumble, this one is an ish tamim able to bridle also the entire guf (body).#3:2 1Kgs 8:46; Ps 39:1; Prov 10:19
3And if we put bits into the mouths of susim (horses) to bring them into mishma'at (obedience), in just this way we direct their whole gufot (bodies).
4Hinei, also the oniyot (ships), even though gedolot and driven by gales, are guided by a very small rudder wherever the impulse of the one steering directs.
5So also the lashon (tongue), an evar katon (small member) speaks of RAVREVAN#3:5 Dan 7:8,20 (boastful things). Hinei, an eish ketanah (small fire) and yet how great a forest it can set ablaze!#3:5 Ps 12:3,4; 73:8,9
6And the lashon is an Eish, the lashon is made an Olam HaAvel (World of Iniquity) among our evarim (members), defiling with a stain kol haGuf (whole body), and setting ablaze the course of life, and is itself set by eish in Gehinnom.#3:6 Prov 16:27
7For every species both of wild animals and birds, reptiles and marine creatures is tamed and has been tamed by humankind.
8But the Lashon no one of Bnei Adam is able to tame, an uncontrollable ra'ah (evil), full of deadly zuhamah (contamination).
9With this we say a bracha to Hashem, Adoneinu and Avoteinu, and with this we put a kelalah (curse) on Bnei Adam, who have been created according to the demut Elohim.#3:9 Gn 1:26,27f
10Out of the same PEH comes forth bracha and also kelalah. My Achim b'Moshiach, these things ought not to be.
11Surely not out of the same makor (fountain) pours forth mayim both sweet and bitter?
12Surely an etz te'enah (fig tree) cannot yield olives, my Achim b'Moshiach, or a grape vine figs? Neither can salt water yield sweet water.
13Who has chochmah and binah among you? Let him show by his hitnahagut hatovah (good conduct) that the ma'asim of him are of the shiflut (lowliness) of chochmah.
14But if bitter kina (jealousy) you have and anochiyut (selfishness) in your levavot, do not boast and speak sheker against HaEmes.
15This is not the Chochmah coming down and descending from above, but is of the Olam Hazeh, of this world and of shedim.
16For where kina and anochiyut are, there is tohu vavohu (disorder, chaos) and every ra'ah.
17But the chochmah from above is berishonah (in the first place) tehorah (pure), then ohevet shalom (peace-loving), then eidel (gentle) and considerate, then full of rachamim and p'ri tov, and without maso panim and tzevi'ut.
18And the p'ri haTzedek is shalom sown by the ones making shalom.#3:18 Prov 11:18; Isa 32:17; Hos 10:12
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