Basic HTML Version
are
driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the
governor listeth.
5
Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how
great a matter a little fire kindleth!
6
And the tongue
is
a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue
among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and
it is set on fire of hell.
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 tongue can no man tame;
it is
an unruly
evil, full of deadly poison.
9
Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men,
which are made after the similitude of God.
10
Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and
cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.
11
Doth a fountain send forth at the same
place sweet
water
and bitter?
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 conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.
14
But
if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
15
This
wisdom descendeth not from above, but
is
earthly, sensual, devilish.
16
For where envying and
strife
is,
there
is
confusion and every evil work.
17
But the wisdom that is from above is first pure,
then peaceable, gentle,
and
easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality,
and without hypocrisy.
18
And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.
CHAPTER 4
From whence
come
wars and fightings among you?
come they
not hence,
even
of your lusts that
war in your members?
2
Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye
fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
3
Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss,
that ye may consume
it
upon your lusts.
4
Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the
friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is
the enemy of God.
5
Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth
to envy?
6
But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace
unto the humble.
7
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
8
Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse
your
hands,
ye
sinners; and purify
your
hearts,
ye
double minded.
9
Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to
mourning, and
your
joy to heaviness.
10
Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall
lift you up.
11
Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of
his
brother, and
judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou
art not a doer of the law, but a judge.
12
There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy:
who art thou that judgest another?
13
Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there
a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:
14
Whereas ye know not what
shall be
on the morrow. For
1621
KJV Bible