James Capítulo 3

3 : 1 Not many should become teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive greater judgment.

3 : 2 For we all stumble in many things. If any man does not stumble in word, this is a perfect man, able also to bridle the whole body.

3 : 3 Behold we put bits into the mouths of horses for them to obey us, and we guide about their whole body.

3 : 4 Behold also the ships, being so great and driven by fierce winds, are guided about by a very small rudder, wherever the impulse of the man who steers determines.

3 : 5 So also the tongue is a little body-part, and boasts greatly. Behold a little fire, how much wood it kindles.

3 : 6 And the tongue is a fire, the world of unrighteousness. Thus, the tongue is made to lead among our body-parts, defiling the whole body, and setting the cycle of nature on fire, and being set on fire by hell.

3 : 7 For every species, both of beasts and of birds, both of creeping things and things in the sea, is tamed, and has been tamed by the human species.

3 : 8 But no man is able to tame the tongue of men, an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

3 : 9 By it we bless the God and Father, and by it we curse men, who were made according to a likeness of God.

3 : 10 Out of the same mouth proceeds blessing and curse. My brothers, these things ought not to happen this way.

3 : 11 Does the spring pour out from the same opening the sweet and the bitter?

3 : 12 A fig tree, my brothers, cannot make olives, or a grapevine figs. In the same way, no one spring makes water salty and sweet.

3 : 13 Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show from his good behavior his works in meekness of wisdom.

3 : 14 But if ye have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not boast, and do not lie against the truth.

3 : 15 This wisdom is not descending from above, but is earthly, world-soul, demonic.

3 : 16 For where envy and selfish ambition are, there is instability and every evil deed.

3 : 17 But the wisdom from above is indeed first pure, then peaceful, gentle, easily entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and non-hypocritical.

3 : 18 And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace to those who make peace.