James 3

Controlling the Tongue

1Not many should become teachers, my brothers, # 3:1 Or brothers and sisters because you know that we will receive a stricter judgment. # 3:1 Mt 23:8; Rm 2:20–21; 1Tm 1:7 2For we all stumble in many ways. # 3:2 1Kg 8:46; Pr 20:9; Jms 2:10 If anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is mature, able also to control the whole body. # 3:2 Mt 12:37; Jms 1:26; 1Pt 3:10 3Now if we put bits into the mouths of horses so that they obey us, # 3:3 Ps 32:9; 39:1 we direct their whole bodies. 4And consider ships: Though very large and driven by fierce winds, they are guided by a very small rudder wherever the will of the pilot directs. 5So too, though the tongue is a small part of the body, it boasts great things. # 3:5 Ps 12:3–4; 73:8–9 Consider how a small fire sets ablaze a large forest. 6And the tongue is a fire. The tongue, a world of unrighteousness, is placed # 3:6 Or places itself, or appoints itself among our members. It stains the whole body, # 3:6 Ps 120:2–3; Pr 16:27; Mt 15:11,18 sets the course of life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell. 7Every kind of animal, bird, reptile, and fish is tamed and has been tamed by humankind, 8but no one can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. # 3:8 Ps 140:3; Ec 10:11; Rm 3:13 9With the tongue we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people who are made in God’s likeness. # 3:9 Gn 1:26; 1Co 11:7 10Blessing and cursing come out of the same mouth. My brothers and sisters, these things should not be this way. 11Does a spring pour out sweet and bitter water from the same opening? 12Can a fig tree produce olives, my brothers and sisters, or a grapevine produce figs? Neither can a saltwater spring yield fresh water.

The Wisdom from Above

13Who among you is wise and understanding? By his good conduct he should show that his works are done in the gentleness that comes from wisdom. # 3:13 Jms 1:21; 2:18 14But if you have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and deny the truth. # 3:14 Rm 2:8; 13:13; 2Co 12:20 15Such wisdom does not come down from above but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic. # 3:15 2Th 2:9; 1Tm 4:1; Jms 1:17; Rv 2:24 16For where there is envy and selfish ambition, there is disorder and every evil practice. 17But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peace-loving, gentle, compliant, full of mercy and good fruits, unwavering, without pretense. # 3:17 Lk 6:36; Rm 12:9; 1Co 2:6; Heb 12:11; Jms 2:4 18And the fruit of righteousness # 3:18 Pr 11:18; Is 32:17; Hs 10:12; Am 6:12; Gl 6:8; Php 1:11 is sown in peace by those who cultivate peace.

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Ya'akov 3

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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