Chapter 3
By governing the tongue, we gain perfection—Heavenly wisdom is pure, peaceable, and full of mercy.
1 My brethren,
2 For in many things we
3 Behold, we put bits in the horses’ mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body.
4 Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the
5 Even so the tongue is a little member, and
6 And the
7 For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:
8 But the
9 Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith
10 Out of the same
11 Doth a
12 Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.
13 Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good
14 But if ye have bitter envying and
15 This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.
16 For where
17 But the
18 And the fruit of
