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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>James 3 Smith's Literal Translation</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/james/3.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/james/3-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">SLT</a> > James 3</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../james/2.htm" title="James 2">◄</a> James 3 <a href="../james/4.htm" title="James 4">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Smith's Literal Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/james/3-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Taming the Tongue<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../psalms/64.htm">Psalm 64:1–10</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/3-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Be ye not many teachers, my brethren, knowing that we shall receive the greater judgment. <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/3-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>For in many things we all stumble. If any stumble not in word, this a perfect man, able to govern by a bridle also the whole body. <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/3-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they should yield to us; and we lead their whole body. <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/3-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Behold also ships, being so great, and driven by hard winds, are led by the smallest rudder, wherever the desire of him steering should will. <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/3-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>So also the tongue is a small member, and vaunts itself. Behold, how great a wood a little fire inflames. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/3-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>(And the tongue a fire, a world of iniquity: so the tongue is placed in our members, defiling the whole body, and burning the wheel of creation; and burned by hell. <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/3-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>For every nature of beasts, and also of birds, of creeping things, and also of things in the sea, is tamed, and has been tamed by the nature of man: <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And the tongue none of men can tame; an ungovernable evil, full of deadly poison. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>With it we praise the God and Father; and with it we curse men, those made according to the similitude of God. <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Out of the same month comes forth blessing and cursing. There is no need, my brethren, for these things so to be. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/3-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Much less from the same aperture does a fountain bubble out sweet and bitter? <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/3-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>The fig tree, my brethren, cannot make olives, or the vine, figs: so no fountain can make salt and sweet water.<p> <A name="14"></a><p class="hdg">The Wisdom from Above<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/3-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Who wise and knowing among you? let him show out of a good mode of life his works in meekness of wisdom. <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/3-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And if ye have bitter envy and intrigue in your heart, boast not, and lie not against the truth. <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/3-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>This is wisdom coming not down from above, but earthly, natural, resembling an evil spirit. <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/3-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>For where envy and intrigue, there confusion and every bad deed. <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/3-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And the wisdom from above is truly first pure, then peaceful, decorous, docile, full of mercy and good fruits, not separated, and unfeigned. <span class="reftext"><a href="/james/3-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And the fruit of justice is sown in peace by those making peace.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally From The Original Tongues by Julia E. 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