James 3
1 Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged more strictly.
2 For we all stumble in many ways. If anyone does not stumble in words, he is a perfect man, able to control even his whole body.
3 Now if we put bits into horses' mouths for them to obey us, we can also direct their whole bodies.
4 Notice also that ships, although they are so large and are driven by strong winds, are steered by a very small rudder to wherever the pilot desires.
5 Likewise the tongue is a small body part, yet it boasts great things. Notice also how small a fire sets on fire a large forest.
6 The tongue is also a fire, a world of sinfulness set among our body parts. It stains the whole body and sets on fire the course of life. It is itself set on fire by hell.
7 For every kind of wild animal, bird, reptile, and sea creature is being tamed and has been tamed by mankind.
8 But no human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.
9 With it we praise the Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in God's likeness.
10 Out of the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things should not happen.
11 Does a spring pour out from its opening both sweet and bitter water?
12 Does a fig tree, my brothers, make olives? Or a grapevine, figs? Neither can salty water produce sweet water.
13 Who is wise and understanding among you? Let that person show a good life by his works in the humility of wisdom.
14 But if you have bitter jealousy and ambition in your heart, do not boast and lie against the truth.
15 This is not the wisdom that comes down from above. Instead, it is earthly, unspiritual, demonic.
16 For where there are jealousy and ambition, there is confusion and every evil practice.
17 But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peace-loving, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere.
18 The fruit of righteousness is sown in peace among those who make peace.
Références croisées
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- 11Ti 1:7, Luk 12:47–48, 1Pe 5:3, 1Co 12:28, Mat 23:13, Mat 23:8–10, 2Co 5:10, Rom 2:20–21
- 2Jas 1:26, Pro 13:3, 1Pe 3:10, Mat 12:37, Jas 3:5–6, Psa 34:13, Pro 20:9, 1Jn 1:8–10
- 3Psa 32:9, Psa 39:1, Jas 1:26, 2Ki 19:28
- 4Mat 8:24, Act 27:14–38, Psa 107:25–27
- 5Pro 18:21, Jer 9:3–8, Pro 12:18, Pro 15:2, Psa 17:10, Psa 73:8–9, Psa 52:1–2, Psa 12:2–4
- 6Psa 120:2–3, Pro 16:27, Mrk 7:15, Mat 15:11–20, Pro 15:1, Mrk 7:20–22, Luk 16:24, Col 3:8–9
- 8Rom 3:13, Psa 140:3, Psa 55:21, Jas 3:6, Psa 57:4, Psa 64:3–4, Psa 59:7, Psa 58:4
- 9Psa 10:7, Gen 1:26–27, Isa 29:13, Psa 62:4, Gen 9:6, Psa 59:12, Act 2:26, Gen 5:1
- 10Rom 12:14, 1Pe 3:9, Psa 50:16–20, 1Co 3:3, 1Ti 5:13, Mic 3:11, Jer 7:4–10, Gen 20:9
- 12Luk 6:43–44, Mat 12:33, Mat 7:16–20, Jer 2:21, Rom 11:16–18, Ezk 47:8–11, Isa 5:2–4
- 13Gal 5:23, Jas 3:17, Mat 5:5, Col 3:12, 1Pe 2:12, Tit 3:2, Php 1:27, 2Ti 2:25
- 14Jas 3:16, 1Co 13:4, Php 2:3, 1Co 3:3, Rom 13:13, 2Co 12:20, 1Pe 2:1–2, Php 1:15
- 15Jas 3:17, Jas 1:17, 1Co 3:19, Php 3:19, Jhn 3:17, 1Co 2:14, 1Ti 4:1, 2Co 11:13–15
- 16Jas 3:14, 1Co 3:3, 1Co 14:33, 1Jn 3:12, Gal 5:20, Gen 11:9
- 17Gal 5:22–23, Pro 2:6, 1Co 13:4–7, Jas 3:15, Rom 12:9, Mat 5:8, Jas 1:5, Jas 1:17
- 18Mat 5:9, Hos 10:12, Php 1:11, Isa 32:16–17, Gal 6:8, Pro 11:30, Pro 11:18, Jhn 4:36