| 3:1 | My brethren, be not many teachers, knowing that we shall receive the greater judgment. |
| 3:2 | For in many things we all offend. If any man stumble not in word, the same [is] a perfect man, able also to bridle the whole body. |
| 3:3 | Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body. |
| 3:4 | Behold also the ships, which though [they are] so great, and [are] driven by fierce winds, yet they are turned about with a very small helm, wherever the pilot willeth. |
| 3:5 | Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth! |
| 3:6 | And the tongue [is] a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire from hell. |
| 3:7 | For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of creatures in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed by mankind: |
| 3:8 | But the tongue can no man tame; [it is] an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. |
| 3:9 | With it we bless God, even the Father; and with it we curse men, who are made after the similitude of God. |
| 3:10 | Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be. |
| 3:11 | Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet [water] and bitter? |
| 3:12 | Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? or a vine, figs? so no fountain [can] yield both salt water and fresh. |
| 3:13 | Who [is] a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him show by a good behaviour his works with meekness of wisdom. |
| 3:14 | But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. |
| 3:15 | This wisdom descendeth not from above, but [is] earthly, sensual, demonic. |
| 3:16 | For where envying and strife [is], there [is] confusion and every evil work. |
| 3:17 | But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, [and] reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. |
| 3:18 | And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by them that make peace. |
James 3 - Revised Webster Version
