Verse 6
James 3:6
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition
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And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. The tongue is placed among our members, which defileth the whole body, and inflameth the wheel of our nativity, being set on fire by hell.
Original Language Text
greek
καὶ ἡ γλῶσσα πῦρ, ὁ κόσμος τῆς ⸀ἀδικίας ἡ γλῶσσα καθίσταται ἐν τοῖς μέλεσιν ἡμῶν, ἡ σπιλοῦσα ὅλον τὸ σῶμα καὶ φλογίζουσα τὸν τροχὸν τῆς γενέσεως καὶ φλογιζομένη ὑπὸ τῆς γεέννης.
English Translation
And the tongue is a fire, the world of iniquity; the tongue is placed among our members, which stains the whole body and sets on fire the course of nature, and is itself set on fire by hell.
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Chapter 3 Context
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Be ye not many masters, my brethren, knowing that you receive the greater judgment.
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For in many things we all offend. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man. He is ab...
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For if we put bits into the mouths of horses, that they may obey us, and we turn about their whole b...
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Behold also ships, whereas they are great, and are driven by strong winds, yet are they turned about...
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Even so the tongue is indeed a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold how small a fire kin...
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For every nature of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of the rest, is tamed, and hath been...
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But the tongue no man can tame, an unquiet evil, full of deadly poison.
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9
By it we bless God (Elohim) and the Father: and by it we curse men, who are made after the likeness...
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Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.
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11
Doth a fountain send forth, out of the same hole, sweet and bitter water?
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Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear grapes; or the vine, figs? So neither can the salt water yield s...
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Who is a wise man, and endued with knowledge among you? Let him shew, by a good conversation, his wo...
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But if you have bitter zeal, and there be contentions in your hearts; glory not, and be not liars ag...
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15
For this is not wisdom, descending from above: but earthly, sensual, devilish.
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For where envying and contention is, there is inconstancy, and every evil work.
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But the wisdom, that is from above, first indeed is chaste, then peaceable, modest, easy to be persu...
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And the fruit of justice is sown in peace, to them that make peace.
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