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|Jacques 3:1| Do not all be teachers, my brothers, because we teachers will be judged more hardly than others.
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|Jacques 3:2| For we all go wrong in a number of things. If a man never makes a slip in his talk, then he is a complete man and able to keep all his body in control.
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|Jacques 3:3| Now if we put bits of iron into horses' mouths so that they may be guided by us, we have complete control of their bodies.
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|Jacques 3:4| And again ships, though they are so great and are moved by violent winds, are turned by a very small guiding-blade, at the impulse of the man who is using it.
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|Jacques 3:5| Even so the tongue is a small part of the body, but it takes credit for great things. How much wood may be lighted by a very little fire!
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|Jacques 3:6| And the tongue is a fire; it is the power of evil placed in our bodies, making all the body unclean, putting the wheel of life on fire, and getting its fire from hell.
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|Jacques 3:7| For every sort of beast and bird and every living thing on earth and in the sea has been controlled by man and is under his authority;
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|Jacques 3:8| But the tongue may not be controlled by man; it is an unresting evil, it is full of the poison of death.
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|Jacques 3:9| With it we give praise to our Lord and Father; and with it we put a curse on men who are made in God's image.
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|Jacques 3:10| Out of the same mouth comes blessing and cursing. My brothers, it is not right for these things to be so.
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