James 3
3:1Let there not be many teachers, my brethren! knowing that we shall receive greater judgment.
3:2For many times we are at fault all together. If any in word is not at fault, this one is a perfect man, able to bridle even his entire body.
3:3See! we put the bits into the mouths of the horses, for them to comply to us, and we lead around their entire body.
3:4Behold, also the boats being so great, and by harsh winds being driven, are led around by the least size rudder, where even the thrust of the one straightening wills it to go.
3:5So also the tongue is a small member, and brags. Behold, a little fire how much material it lights;
3:6And the tongue is fire, the world of unrighteousness. Thus the tongue is placed among our members, staining the entire body, and blazing the whirlwind of creation, and being set ablaze by Gehenna.
3:7For every species of nature, both of wild beasts and of birds, both of reptiles and marine life, is tamed and has been tamed by the human nature.
3:8But the tongue no one is able of men to tame; it is an unrestrained evil, full of poison causing death.
3:9By it we bless God and father, and by it we curse men, the ones who are born according to the likeness of God.
3:10From out of the same mouth comes forth blessing and curse. It does not behoove us, my brethren, for these things so to be.
3:11Does the spring from out of the same opening gush the sweet and the bitter?
3:12Is the fig-tree able my brethren to produce olives, or a grapevine to produce figs? Thus not one spring is able to produce salty and sweet water.
3:13Who is wise and intelligent among you? Let him show out of the good behavior his works in gentleness of wisdom!
3:14But if you have bitter jealousy and contention in your heart, do not glory over and lie against the truth!
3:15This is not the wisdom coming down from above, but earthly, physical, demoniacal.
3:16For where there is jealousy and contention, there is commotion and every heedless thing.
3:17But the wisdom from above first indeed is pure, thereupon peaceable, lenient, obeys readily, full of mercy and of good fruits, impartial and unpretentious.
3:18And fruit of righteousness in peace is sown to the ones making peace.