3: 2 For in many things we all stumble. If any stumbleth not in word, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also.
3: 3 Now if we put the horses’ bridles into their mouths that they may obey us, we turn about their whole body also.
3: 4 Behold, the ships also, though they are so great and are driven by rough winds, are yet turned about by a very small rudder, whither the impulse of the steersman willeth.
3: 5 So the tongue also is a little member and boasteth great things. Behold, 33how much wood is kindled by how small a fire!
33Or, how great a forest
3: 6 And the tongue is 34a fire: the world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the wheel of 35nature, and is set on fire by 36Gehenna.
34Or, a fire, that world of iniquity: the tongue is among our members that which etc. or, a fire: that world of iniquity, the tongue, is among our members that which etc.
35Or, birth,
36That is, the lake of fire, Jerusalem’s refuse dump.
3: 7 For every 37kind of beasts and birds, of creeping things and things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed 38by 39mankind:
37Gk. nature
38Or, unto
39Gk. the human nature:
3: 8 but the tongue can no one tame; it is a restless evil, it is full of deadly poison.
3: 9 Therewith bless we 40the Lord and Father; and therewith curse we men, who have become after the likeness of God:
40So p20BAℵCψ 1739 1852 1241 33 arm. 1243 2344 322 and a majority of lesser Gk. mss., copsa,ach read God, even the Father;
3: 10 out of the same mouth cometh forth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.
3: 11 Doth the fountain send forth from the same opening sweet water and bitter?
3: 12 Can a fig tree, my brethren, yield olives, or a vine figs? neither can salt water yield sweet water.
3: 13 Who is wise and understanding among you? let him show by his good life his works in meekness of wisdom.
3: 14 But if ye have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, glory not and lie not against the truth.
3: 15 This wisdom is not a wisdom that cometh down from above, but is earthly, 41sensual, 42devilish.
41Or, natural, or, animal, (Lit. of the soul)
42Gk. demoniacal
3: 16 For where jealousy and faction are, there is confusion, and every vile deed.
3: 17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, after that peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without 43doubtfulness, without hypocrisy.
43Or, variance, or, partiality,
3: 18 And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace 44for them that make peace.
44Or, by
