James 3:10

Geneva Bible (1560)

Out of one mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing: my brethren, these things ought not so to be.

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  • 1 Cor 3:3 : 3 For yee are yet carnall: for whereas there is among you enuying, and strife, and diuisions, are ye not carnall, and walke as men?
  • 1 Pet 3:9 : 9 Not rendring euil for euill, neither rebuke for rebuke: but contrarywise blesse, knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should be heires of blessing.
  • 1 Tim 5:13 : 13 And likewise also being idle they learne to goe about from house to house: yea, they are not onely ydle, but also pratlers and busibodies, speaking things which are not comely.
  • Gen 20:9 : 9 Afterward Abimelech called Abraham, and said vnto him, What hast thou done vnto vs? and what haue I offeded thee, that thou hast brought on me and on my kingdome this great sinne? thou hast done things vnto me that ought not to be done.
  • 2 Sam 13:12 : 12 But shee answered him, Nay, my brother, doe not force me: for no such thing ought to be done in Israel: commit not this follie.
  • Ps 50:16-20 : 16 But vnto the wicked said God, What hast thou to doe to declare mine ordinances, that thou shouldest take my couenant in thy mouth, 17 Seeing thou hatest to bee reformed, and hast cast my wordes behinde thee? 18 For when thou seest a thiefe, thou runnest with him, & thou art partaker with the adulterers. 19 Thou giuest thy mouth to euill, and with thy tongue thou forgest deceit. 20 Thou sittest, and speakest against thy brother, and slanderest thy mothers sonne.
  • Jer 7:4-9 : 4 Trust not in lying woordes, saying, The Temple of the Lorde, the Temple of the Lorde: this is the Temple of the Lord. 5 For if you amende and redresse your waies and your woorkes: if you execute iudgement betweene a man and his neighbour, 6 And oppresse not the stranger, the fatherlesse and the widow and shed no innocent blood in this place, neither walke after other gods to your destruction, 7 Then will I let you dwell in this place in the lande that I gaue vnto your fathers, for euer and euer. 8 Beholde, you trust in lying woordes, that can not profite. 9 Will you steale, murder, and commit adulterie, and sweare falsely and burne incense vnto Baal, and walke after other gods whome yee knowe not? 10 And come and stande before mee in this House, whereupon my Name is called, and saye, We are deliuered, though we haue done all these abominations?
  • Mic 3:11 : 11 The heads thereof iudge for rewardes, and the Priestes thereof teache for hyre, and the prophets thereof prophecie for money: yet wil they leane vpon the Lorde, and say, Is not the Lorde among vs? no euill can come vpon vs.
  • Rom 12:14 : 14 Blesse them which persecute you: blesse, I say, and curse not.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Jas 3:8-9
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    8 But the tongue can no man tame. It is an vnruly euill, full of deadly poyson.

    9 Therewith blesse we God euen the Father, and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.

  • Jas 3:11-14
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    11 Doeth a fountaine send forth at one place sweete water and bitter?

    12 Can ye figge tree, my brethren, bring forth oliues, either a vine figges? so can no fountaine make both salt water and sweete.

    13 Who is a wise man & endued with knowledge among you? let him shew by good conuersation his workes in meekenesse of wisdome.

    14 But if ye haue bitter enuying and strife in your hearts, reioyce not, neither be liars against the trueth.

  • 14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitternesse.

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    18 But those thinges which proceede out of the mouth, come from the heart, and they defile the man.

    19 For out of the heart come euil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, slaunders.

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    33 Either make the tree good, and his fruite good: or els make the tree euill, and his fruite euil: for the tree is knowen by the fruite.

    34 O generations of vipers, howe can you speake good things, when ye are euill? For of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

    35 A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth foorth good things: & an euill man out of an euill treasure, bringeth forth euill things.

  • 1 Pet 3:9-10
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    9 Not rendring euil for euill, neither rebuke for rebuke: but contrarywise blesse, knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should be heires of blessing.

    10 For if any man long after life, and to see good dayes, let him refraine his tongue from euill, and his lippes that they speake no guile.

  • 45 A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth foorth good, and an euill man out of the euill treasure of his heart bringeth foorth euill: for of the aboundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.

  • 13 That thou answerest to God at thy pleasure, and bringest such wordes out of thy mouth?

  • 11 That which goeth into the mouth, defileth not the man, but that which commeth out of the mouth, that defileth the man.

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    10 Accuse not a seruant vnto his master, lest he curse thee, when thou hast offended.

    11 There is a generation that curseth their father, and doeth not blesse their mother.

  • 38 Out of the mouth of the most high proceedeth not euill and good?

  • Jas 3:1-3
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    1 My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receiue the greater condemnation.

    2 For in many things we sinne all. If any man sinne not in word, he is a perfect man, and able to bridle all the body.

    3 Beholde, we put bittes into the horses mouthes, that they should obey vs, and we turne about all their bodie.

  • 31 The mouth of the iust shall be fruitfull in wisdome: but the tongue of the froward shall be cut out.

  • 12 But before all thinges, my brethren, sweare not, neither by heauen, nor by earth, nor by any other othe: but let your yea, be yea, and your nay, nay, lest ye fall into condemnation.

  • 29 Let no corrupt comunicatio proceed out of your mouths: but that which is good, to ye vse of edifying, that it may minister grace vnto the hearers.

  • 11 The mouth of a righteous man is a welspring of life: but iniquitie couereth the mouth of the wicked.

  • Jas 3:5-6
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    5 Euen so the tongue is a litle member, and boasteth of great things: beholde, howe great a thing a litle fire kindleth.

    6 And the tongue is fire, yea, a worlde of wickednesse: so is the tongue set 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.

  • Jas 1:19-20
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    19 Wherefore my deare brethren, let euery man be swift to heare, slowe to speake, and slowe to wrath.

    20 For the wrath of man doeth not accomplish the righteousnesse of God.

  • 8 But now put ye away euen all these things, wrath, anger, maliciousnes, cursed speaking, filthie speaking, out of your mouth.

  • 4 A wholesome tongue is as a tree of life: but the frowardnes therof is the breaking of ye minde.

  • 4 The words of a mans mouth are like deepe waters, and the welspring of wisdome is like a flowing riuer.

  • 14 Blesse them which persecute you: blesse, I say, and curse not.

  • Matt 7:17-18
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    17 So euery good tree bringeth foorth good fruite, & a corrupt tree bringeth forth euill fruite.

    18 A good tree can not bring forth euil fruite: neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruite.

  • 6 Blessings are vpon the head of the righteous: but iniquitie shall couer the mouth of the wicked.

  • 11 Speake not euill one of another, brethren. He that speaketh euill of his brother, or he that condemneth his brother, speaketh euill of ye Law, and condemneth the Lawe: and if thou condemnest the Lawe, thou art not an obseruer of the Lawe, but a iudge.

  • 30 Neither haue I suffred my mouth to sinne, by wishing a curse vnto his soule.

  • 16 Erre not, my deare brethren.

  • 7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceite and fraude: vnder his tongue is mischiefe and iniquitie.

  • 19 Thou giuest thy mouth to euill, and with thy tongue thou forgest deceit.

  • 7 For my mouth shall speake the trueth, and my lippes abhorre wickednesse.

  • 17 As he loued cursing, so shall it come vnto him, and as he loued not blessing, so shall it be farre from him.

  • 8 And with the wholesome woorde, which can not be condemned, that hee which withstandeth, may be ashamed, hauing nothing concerning you to speake euill of.

  • 9 Grudge not one against another, brethren, least ye be condemned: behold, the iudge standeth before the doore.

  • 6 (5:5) Suffer not thy mouth to make thy flesh to sinne: neither say before the Angel, that this is ignorance: wherefore shall God bee angry by thy voyce, and destroy the worke of thine hands?

  • 31 Let all bitternesse, and anger, and wrath, crying, and euill speaking be put away from you, with all maliciousnesse.

  • 16 Cause not your commoditie to be euill spoken of.