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You know that we who teach will be judged more severely. <span class="reftext"><a href="/james/3-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>All of us make a lot of mistakes. If someone doesn't make any mistakes when he speaks, he would be perfect. He would be able to control everything he does. <span class="reftext"><a href="/james/3-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>We put bits in the mouths of horses to make them obey us, and we have control over everything they do. <span class="reftext"><a href="/james/3-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>The same thing is true for ships. They are very big and are driven by strong winds. Yet, by using small rudders, pilots steer ships wherever they want them to go. <span class="reftext"><a href="/james/3-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>In the same way the tongue is a small part of the body, but it can brag about doing important things. A large forest can be set on fire by a little flame. <span class="reftext"><a href="/james/3-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>The tongue is that kind of flame. It is a world of evil among the parts of our bodies, and it completely contaminates our bodies. The tongue sets our lives on fire, and is itself set on fire from hell. <span class="reftext"><a href="/james/3-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>People have tamed all kinds of animals, birds, reptiles, and sea creatures. <span class="reftext"><a href="/james/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Yet, no one can tame the tongue. It is an uncontrollable evil filled with deadly poison. <span class="reftext"><a href="/james/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>With our tongues we praise our Lord and Father. Yet, with the same tongues we curse people, who were created in God's likeness. <span class="reftext"><a href="/james/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Praise and curses come from the same mouth. My brothers and sisters, this should not happen! <span class="reftext"><a href="/james/3-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Do clean and polluted water flow out of the same spring? <span class="reftext"><a href="/james/3-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>My brothers and sisters, can a fig tree produce olives? Can a grapevine produce figs? In the same way, a pool of salt water can't produce fresh water.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/3-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Do any of you have wisdom and insight? Show this by living the right way with the humility that comes from wisdom. <span class="reftext"><a href="/james/3-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>But if you are bitterly jealous and filled with self-centered ambition, don't brag. Don't say that you are wise when it isn't true. <span class="reftext"><a href="/james/3-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>That kind of wisdom doesn't come from above. It belongs to this world. It is self-centered and demonic. <span class="reftext"><a href="/james/3-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Wherever there is jealousy and rivalry, there is disorder and every kind of evil. <span class="reftext"><a href="/james/3-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>However, the wisdom that comes from above is first of all pure. Then it is peaceful, gentle, obedient, filled with mercy and good deeds, impartial, and sincere. <span class="reftext"><a href="/james/3-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>A harvest that has God's approval comes from the peace planted by peacemakers.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">GOD'S WORD® is a copyrighted work of <a href="//www.godsword.org" target="_top">God's Word to the Nations</a>. Quotations are used by permission. Copyright 1995 by God's Word to the Nations. 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