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  3:1 ¶
LET there not be many teachers among you, my brethren, but know that a greater condemnation we incur. |
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3:1
Let there not be many teachers among you, my brethren; but know ye, that we are obnoxious to, a severer judgment. |
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3:2
For (in) many we all offend. Every one who in word offendeth not, this is a perfect man, who is able to make subject also all his body. |
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3:2
For we all offend in many things. Whoever offendeth not in discourse, is a perfect man, who can also keep his whole body in subjection. |
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3:3
For, behold, bridles into the mouth of horses we throw that we may make them submissive to us, and their whole body we turn. |
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3:3
Behold, we put bridles into the mouth of horses, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body. |
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3:4
Also the mighty ships, while the furious winds drive them, by a little wood are turned about to the region which the will of him who guideth doth contemplate. |
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Huge ships also, when strong winds drive them, are turned about by a small timber, to what place the pleasure of the pilot looketh. |
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3:5
So also the tongue is a small member, and uplifteth itself. A little fire also burneth many forests; |
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3:5
So likewise the tongue is a small member, and it exalteth itself. Also a little fire inflameth large forests. |
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3:6
and the tongue is a fire, a world of sin, like a forest is the tongue itself among our members; it defileth all of our body, and burneth the course of our generations which run (forward) as a wheel, and kindleth also itself with fire. |
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Now the tongue is a fire, and the world of sin is like a forest. And this tongue, which is one among our members, marreth our whole body; and it inflameth the series of our generations that roll on like a wheel; and it is itself on fire. |
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3:7
For every nature of animals, and of birds, and reptiles of the sea, and of the dry land, have been subjected to the human nature; |
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3:7
For all natures of beasts and birds and reptiles, of the sea or land, are subjugated by the nature of man. |
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but the tongue no one can subdue; this is an evil not ordered, (and) full of the poison of death. |
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3:8
But the tongue hath no one been able to tame: it is an evil thing, not coercible, and full of deadly poison. |
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3:9
For by it we bless the Lord and the Father, and by it we curse men who in the likeness of Aloha were made; |
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3:9
For with it, we bless the Lord and Father; and with it we curse men, who were made in the image of God: |
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3:10
and from the same mouth go forth curses and blessings. My brethren, it is not fit that these should so be done. |
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3:10
and from the same mouth, proceed curses and blessings. My brethren, these things ought not to be so. |
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3:11
Can it be that one fountain shall send forth waters sweet and bitter? |
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3:11
Can there flow from the same fountain, sweet waters and bitter? |
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3:12
Or can the fig-tree, my brethren, make olives, or the vines figs? thus also salt waters cannot be made sweet. |
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3:12
Or can the fig-tree, my brethren, bear olives? or the vine, figs? So also salt waters cannot be made sweet. |
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3:13
Who of you is wise and instructed? let him show his works in good conversations in meek wisdom. |
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3:13
Who is wise and instructed among you? Let him show his works in praiseworthy actions, with modest wisdom. |
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3:14
But if you have bitter envy among yourselves, or contention be in your hearts, be not inflated against the truth, nor lie; |
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3:14
But if bitter envy be in you, or contention in your hearts, exalt not yourselves against the truth, and lie not. |
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3:15
because this wisdom from above descendeth not; but is earthly, from the reasonings of the soul, and from demons. |
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3:15
For this wisdom cometh not down from above; but is earthly, and from the devices of the soul, and from demons. |
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3:16
For where there are envy and contention, there also are tumult and every thing that is evil. |
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3:16
For where envy and contention are, there also is confusion, and every thing wrong. |
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3:17
But the wisdom that is from above is pure, and full of peace, and meekness, and obedience, and full of mercies and good fruits, and is without division, and faces accepteth not. |
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3:17
But the wisdom which is from above, is pure, and full of peace, and mild, and submissive, and full of compassion and of good fruits, and without partiality, and without respect of persons. |
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3:18
But the fruits of righteousness in quietness are sown by them who make peace. |
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3:18
And the fruits of righteousness are sown in stillness, by them who make peace. |
