James 1:26

Bible in Basic English (1941)

If a man seems to have religion and has no control over his tongue but lets himself be tricked by what is false, this man's religion is of no value.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 141:3 : 3 O Lord, keep a watch over my mouth; keep the door of my lips.
  • Eph 4:29 : 29 Let no evil talk come out of your mouth, but only what is good for giving necessary teaching, and for grace to those who give ear.
  • 1 Pet 3:10 : 10 For it is said, Let the man who has a love of life, desiring to see good days, keep his tongue from evil and his lips from words of deceit:
  • Ps 34:13 : 13 Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from words of deceit.
  • Jas 3:2-6 : 2 For we all go wrong in a number of things. If a man never makes a slip in his talk, then he is a complete man and able to keep all his body in control. 3 Now if we put bits of iron into horses' mouths so that they may be guided by us, we have complete control of their bodies. 4 And again ships, though they are so great and are moved by violent winds, are turned by a very small guiding-blade, at the impulse of the man who is using it. 5 Even so the tongue is a small part of the body, but it takes credit for great things. How much wood may be lighted by a very little fire! 6 And the tongue is a fire; it is the power of evil placed in our bodies, making all the body unclean, putting the wheel of life on fire, and getting its fire from hell.
  • Jas 1:22 : 22 But be doers of the word, and not only hearers of it, blinding yourselves with false ideas.
  • Eph 5:4 : 4 And let there be no low behaviour, or foolish talk, or words said in sport, which are not right, but in place of them the giving of praise.
  • Col 4:6 : 6 Let your talk be with grace, mixed with salt, so that you may be able to give an answer to everyone.
  • Prov 10:31 : 31 The mouth of the upright man is budding with wisdom, but the twisted tongue will be cut off.
  • Prov 19:1 : 1 Better is the poor man whose ways are upright, than the man of wealth whose ways are twisted.
  • Luke 8:18 : 18 So take care how you give hearing, for to him who has will be given, and from him who has not will be taken even what he seems to have.
  • Prov 13:2-3 : 2 A man will get good from the fruit of his lips, but the desire of the false is for violent acts. 3 He who keeps a watch on his mouth keeps his life; but he whose lips are open wide will have destruction.
  • Prov 10:19 : 19 Where there is much talk there will be no end to sin, but he who keeps his mouth shut does wisely.
  • Ps 39:1-2 : 1 <To the chief music-maker. Of Jeduthun. A Psalm. Of David.> I said, I will give attention to my ways, so that my tongue may do no wrong; I will keep my mouth under control, while the sinner is before me. 2 I made no sound, I said no word, even of good; and I was moved with sorrow.
  • Deut 11:16 : 16 But take care that your hearts are not turned to false ways so that you become servants and worshippers of other gods;
  • Jas 1:19 : 19 You have knowledge of this, dear brothers. But let every man be quick in hearing, slow in words, slow to get angry;
  • Prov 15:2 : 2 Knowledge is dropping from the tongue of the wise; but from the mouth of the foolish comes a stream of foolish words.
  • Gal 6:3 : 3 For if a man has an idea that he is something when he is nothing, he is tricked by himself.
  • Prov 16:10 : 10 Decision is in the lips of the king: his mouth will not go wrong in judging.
  • Prov 16:25 : 25 There is a way which seems straight before a man, but its end is the ways of death.
  • Jas 2:20 : 20 Do you not see, O foolish man, that faith without works is of no use?
  • Ps 32:9 : 9 Do not be like the horse or the ass, without sense; ...
  • Prov 14:12 : 12 There is a way which seems straight before a man, but its end is the ways of death.
  • 1 Cor 3:18 : 18 Let no man have a false idea. If any man seems to himself to be wise among you, let him become foolish, so that he may be wise.
  • 1 Cor 15:2 : 2 By which you have salvation; that is to say, the form in which it was given to you, if it is fixed in your minds, and if your faith in it is not without effect.
  • 1 Cor 15:15 : 15 Yes, and we are seen to be false witnesses of God; because we gave witness of God that by his power Christ came again from the dead: which is not true if there is no coming back from the dead.
  • Gal 2:6 : 6 But from those who seemed to be important (whatever they were has no weight with me: God does not take man's person into account): those who seemed to be important gave nothing new to me;
  • Prov 21:26 : 26 All the day the sinner goes after his desire: but the upright man gives freely, keeping nothing back.
  • Isa 1:13 : 13 Give me no more false offerings; the smoke of burning flesh is disgusting to me, so are your new moons and Sabbaths and your holy meetings.
  • Isa 44:20 : 20 As for him whose food is the dust of a dead fire, he has been turned from the way by a twisted mind, so that he is unable to keep himself safe by saying, What I have here in my hand is false.
  • Mal 3:14 : 14 You have said, It is no use worshipping God: what profit have we had from keeping his orders, and going in clothing of sorrow before the Lord of armies?
  • Matt 15:9 : 9 But their worship is to no purpose, while they give as their teaching the rules of men.
  • Mark 7:7 : 7 But their worship is to no purpose, while they give as their teaching the rules of men.
  • Gal 2:9 : 9 When they saw the grace which was given to me, James and Cephas and John, who had the name of being pillars, gave to me and Barnabas their right hands as friends so that we might go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision;
  • Gal 3:4 : 4 Did you undergo such a number of things to no purpose? if it is in fact to no purpose.

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    19You have knowledge of this, dear brothers. But let every man be quick in hearing, slow in words, slow to get angry;

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    21For this reason, putting away all dirty behaviour and the overweight of evil, take into your souls without pride the word which, being planted there, is able to give you salvation.

    22But be doers of the word, and not only hearers of it, blinding yourselves with false ideas.

    23Because if any man is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a glass;

    24For after looking at himself he goes away, and in a short time he has no memory of what he was like.

    25But he who goes on looking into the true law which makes him free, being not a hearer without memory but a doer putting it into effect, this man will have a blessing on his acts.

  • Jas 3:2-3
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    2For we all go wrong in a number of things. If a man never makes a slip in his talk, then he is a complete man and able to keep all his body in control.

    3Now if we put bits of iron into horses' mouths so that they may be guided by us, we have complete control of their bodies.

  • Gal 6:3
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    3For if a man has an idea that he is something when he is nothing, he is tricked by himself.

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    6From which some have been turned away, giving themselves to foolish talking;

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    5Even so the tongue is a small part of the body, but it takes credit for great things. How much wood may be lighted by a very little fire!

    6And the tongue is a fire; it is the power of evil placed in our bodies, making all the body unclean, putting the wheel of life on fire, and getting its fire from hell.

  • 1 Cor 3:18
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    18Let no man have a false idea. If any man seems to himself to be wise among you, let him become foolish, so that he may be wise.

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    20Do you not see, O foolish man, that faith without works is of no use?

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    4A comforting tongue is a tree of life, but a twisted tongue is a crushing of the spirit.

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    15To the clean in heart all things are clean: but to those who are unclean and without faith nothing is clean; they become unclean in mind and in thought.

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    10For it is said, Let the man who has a love of life, desiring to see good days, keep his tongue from evil and his lips from words of deceit:

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    5But if any man among you is without wisdom, let him make his request to God, who gives freely to all without an unkind word, and it will be given to him.

  • Jas 1:7-8
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    7Let it not seem to such a man that he will get anything from the Lord;

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    10Out of the same mouth comes blessing and cursing. My brothers, it is not right for these things to be so.

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    23He who keeps watch over his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles.

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    13Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from words of deceit.

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    8But the tongue may not be controlled by man; it is an unresting evil, it is full of the poison of death.

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    5Having a form of religion, but turning their backs on the power of it: go not with these.

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    14What use is it, my brothers, for a man to say that he has faith, if he does nothing? will such a faith give him salvation?

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    36And I say to you that in the day when they are judged, men will have to give an account of every foolish word they have said.

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    3By his foolish behaviour a man's ways are turned upside down, and his heart is bitter against the Lord.

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    6Do not be turned from the right way by foolish words; for because of these things the punishment of God comes on those who do not put themselves under him.

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    3In the words of his mouth are evil and deceit; he has given up being wise and doing good.

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    1The designs of the heart are man's, but the answer of the tongue comes from the Lord.

  • 2 Tim 2:16
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    16But take no part in wrong and foolish talk, for those who do so will go farther into evil,

  • Prov 10:19
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    19Where there is much talk there will be no end to sin, but he who keeps his mouth shut does wisely.

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    17Even so faith without works is dead.

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    38But if any man is without knowledge, let him be so.

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    20Nothing good comes to him whose heart is fixed on evil purposes: and he who has an evil tongue will come to trouble.

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  • 1 Pet 1:22
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    22And as you have made your souls clean, being ruled by what is true, and loving one another without deceit, see that your love is warm and from the heart:

  • Prov 26:19
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    19So is the man who gets the better of his neighbour by deceit, and says, Am I not doing so in sport?

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    16Do not be turned from the right way, dear brothers.

  • 1 John 1:8
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    8If we say that we have no sin, we are false to ourselves and there is nothing true in us.

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    4He has an over-high opinion of himself; being without knowledge, having only an unhealthy love of questionings and wars of words, from which come envy, fighting, cruel words, evil thoughts,