James 1:26

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

If someone thinks he is religious yet does not bridle his tongue, and so deceives his heart, his religion is futile.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 141:3 : 3 O LORD, place a guard on my mouth! Protect the opening of my lips!
  • Eph 4:29 : 29 You must let no unwholesome word come out of your mouth, but only what is beneficial for the building up of the one in need, that it would give grace to those who hear.
  • 1 Pet 3:10 : 10 For the one who wants to love life and see good days must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from uttering deceit.
  • Ps 34:13 : 13 Then make sure you don’t speak evil words or use deceptive speech!
  • Jas 3:2-6 : 2 For we all stumble in many ways. If someone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect individual, able to control the entire body as well. 3 And if we put bits into the mouths of horses to get them to obey us, then we guide their entire bodies. 4 Look at ships too: Though they are so large and driven by harsh winds, they are steered by a tiny rudder wherever the pilot’s inclination directs. 5 So too the tongue is a small part of the body, yet it has great pretensions. Think how small a flame sets a huge forest ablaze. 6 And the tongue is a fire! The tongue represents the world of wrongdoing among the parts of our bodies. It pollutes the entire body and sets fire to the course of human existence– and is set on fire by hell.
  • Jas 1:22 : 22 But be sure you live out the message and do not merely listen to it and so deceive yourselves.
  • Eph 5:4 : 4 Neither should there be vulgar speech, foolish talk, or coarse jesting– all of which are out of character– but rather thanksgiving.
  • Col 4:6 : 6 Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you should answer everyone.
  • Prov 10:31 : 31 The speech of the righteous bears the fruit of wisdom, but the one who speaks perversion will be destroyed.
  • Prov 19:1 : 1 Better is a poor person who walks in his integrity than one who is perverse in his speech and is a fool.
  • Luke 8:18 : 18 So listen carefully, for whoever has will be given more, but whoever does not have, even what he thinks he has will be taken from him.”
  • Prov 13:2-3 : 2 From the fruit of his speech a person eats good things, but the treacherous desire the fruit of violence. 3 The one who guards his words guards his life; whoever is talkative will come to ruin.
  • Prov 10:19 : 19 When words abound, transgression is inevitable, but the one who restrains his words is wise.
  • Ps 39:1-2 : 1 For the music director, Jeduthun; a psalm of David. I decided,“I will watch what I say and make sure I do not sin with my tongue. I will put a muzzle over my mouth while in the presence of an evil man.” 2 I was stone silent; I held back the urge to speak. My frustration grew;
  • Deut 11:16 : 16 Exhortation to Instruction and Obedience Make sure you do not turn away to serve and worship other gods!
  • Jas 1:19 : 19 Living Out the Message Understand this, my dear brothers and sisters! Let every person be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger.
  • Prov 15:2 : 2 The tongue of the wise treats knowledge correctly, but the mouth of the fool spouts out folly.
  • Gal 6:3 : 3 For if anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
  • Prov 16:10 : 10 The divine verdict is in the words of the king, his pronouncements must not act treacherously against justice.
  • Prov 16:25 : 25 There is a way that seems right to a person, but its end is the way that leads to death.
  • Jas 2:20 : 20 But would you like evidence, you empty fellow, that faith without works is useless?
  • Ps 32:9 : 9 Do not be like an unintelligent horse or mule, which will not obey you unless they are controlled by a bridle and bit.
  • Prov 14:12 : 12 There is a way that seems right to a person, but its end is the way that leads to death.
  • 1 Cor 3:18 : 18 Guard against self-deception, each of you. If someone among you thinks he is wise in this age, let him become foolish so that he can become wise.
  • 1 Cor 15:2 : 2 and by which you are being saved, if you hold firmly to the message I preached to you– unless you believed in vain.
  • 1 Cor 15:15 : 15 Also, we are found to be false witnesses about God, because we have testified against God that he raised Christ from the dead, when in reality he did not raise him, if indeed the dead are not raised.
  • Gal 2:6 : 6 But from those who were influential(whatever they were makes no difference to me; God shows no favoritism between people)– those influential leaders added nothing to my message.
  • Prov 21:26 : 26 All day long he has craved greedily, but the righteous gives and does not hold back.
  • Isa 1:13 : 13 Do not bring any more meaningless offerings; I consider your incense detestable! You observe new moon festivals, Sabbaths, and convocations, but I cannot tolerate sin-stained celebrations!
  • Isa 44:20 : 20 He feeds on ashes; his deceived mind misleads him. He cannot rescue himself, nor does he say,‘Is this not a false god I hold in my right hand?’
  • Mal 3:14 : 14 You have said,‘It is useless to serve God. How have we been helped by keeping his requirements and going about like mourners before the LORD of Heaven’s Armies?
  • Matt 15:9 : 9 and they worship me in vain, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’”
  • Mark 7:7 : 7 They worship me in vain, teaching as doctrine the commandments of men.’
  • Gal 2:9 : 9 and when James, Cephas, and John, who had a reputation as pillars, recognized the grace that had been given to me, they gave to Barnabas and me the right hand of fellowship, agreeing that we would go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised.
  • Gal 3:4 : 4 Have you suffered so many things for nothing?– if indeed it was for nothing.

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  • Jas 1:27
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    27Pure and undefiled religion before God the Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their adversity and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

  • Jas 1:19-25
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    19Living Out the Message Understand this, my dear brothers and sisters! Let every person be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger.

    20For human anger does not accomplish God’s righteousness.

    21So put away all filth and evil excess and humbly welcome the message implanted within you, which is able to save your souls.

    22But be sure you live out the message and do not merely listen to it and so deceive yourselves.

    23For if someone merely listens to the message and does not live it out, he is like someone who gazes at his own face in a mirror.

    24For he gazes at himself and then goes out and immediately forgets what sort of person he was.

    25But the one who peers into the perfect law of liberty and fixes his attention there, and does not become a forgetful listener but one who lives it out– he will be blessed in what he does.

  • Jas 3:2-3
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    2For we all stumble in many ways. If someone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect individual, able to control the entire body as well.

    3And if we put bits into the mouths of horses to get them to obey us, then we guide their entire bodies.

  • Gal 6:3
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    3For if anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

  • 1 Tim 1:6
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    6Some have strayed from these and turned away to empty discussion.

  • Jas 3:13-14
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    13True Wisdom Who is wise and understanding among you? By his good conduct he should show his works done in the gentleness that wisdom brings.

    14But if you have bitter jealousy and selfishness in your hearts, do not boast and tell lies against the truth.

  • Lev 5:4
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    4or when a person swears an oath, speaking thoughtlessly with his lips, whether to do evil or to do good, with regard to anything which the individual might speak thoughtlessly in an oath, even if he did not realize it, but he himself has later come to know it and is guilty with regard to one of these oaths–

  • Jas 3:5-6
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    5So too the tongue is a small part of the body, yet it has great pretensions. Think how small a flame sets a huge forest ablaze.

    6And the tongue is a fire! The tongue represents the world of wrongdoing among the parts of our bodies. It pollutes the entire body and sets fire to the course of human existence– and is set on fire by hell.

  • 1 Cor 3:18
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    18Guard against self-deception, each of you. If someone among you thinks he is wise in this age, let him become foolish so that he can become wise.

  • Jas 2:20
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    20But would you like evidence, you empty fellow, that faith without works is useless?

  • Prov 15:4
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    4Speech that heals is like a life-giving tree, but a perverse speech breaks the spirit.

  • Titus 1:15-16
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    15All is pure to those who are pure. But to those who are corrupt and unbelieving, nothing is pure, but both their minds and consciences are corrupted.

    16They profess to know God but with their deeds they deny him, since they are detestable, disobedient, and unfit for any good deed.

  • 1 Pet 3:10
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    10For the one who wants to love life and see good days must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from uttering deceit.

  • Jas 1:5
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    5But if anyone is deficient in wisdom, he should ask God, who gives to all generously and without reprimand, and it will be given to him.

  • Jas 1:7-8
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    7For that person must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord,

    8since he is a double-minded individual, unstable in all his ways.

  • Jas 3:10
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    10From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. These things should not be so, my brothers and sisters.

  • Prov 21:23
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    23The one who guards his mouth and his tongue keeps his life from troubles.

  • Ps 34:13
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    13Then make sure you don’t speak evil words or use deceptive speech!

  • Jas 3:8
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    8But no human being can subdue the tongue; it is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.

  • 2 Tim 3:5
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    5They will maintain the outward appearance of religion but will have repudiated its power. So avoid people like these.

  • Jas 2:14
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    14Faith and Works Together What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but does not have works? Can this kind of faith save him?

  • Matt 12:36
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    36I tell you that on the day of judgment, people will give an account for every worthless word they speak.

  • Prov 19:3
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    3A person’s folly subverts his way, and his heart rages against the LORD.

  • Eph 5:6
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    6Live in the Light Let nobody deceive you with empty words, for because of these things God’s wrath comes on the sons of disobedience.

  • Ps 36:3
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    3The words he speaks are sinful and deceitful; he does not care about doing what is wise and right.

  • Jas 4:11
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    11Do not speak against one another, brothers and sisters. He who speaks against a fellow believer or judges a fellow believer speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but its judge.

  • Prov 16:1
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    1The intentions of the heart belong to a man, but the answer of the tongue comes from the LORD.

  • 2 Tim 2:16
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    16But avoid profane chatter, because those occupied with it will stray further and further into ungodliness,

  • Prov 10:19
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    19When words abound, transgression is inevitable, but the one who restrains his words is wise.

  • Jas 2:17
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    17So also faith, if it does not have works, is dead being by itself.

  • 1 Cor 14:38
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    38If someone does not recognize this, he is not recognized.

  • Prov 15:2
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    2The tongue of the wise treats knowledge correctly, but the mouth of the fool spouts out folly.

  • Prov 17:20
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    20The one who has a perverse heart does not find good, and the one who is deceitful in speech falls into trouble.

  • Prov 19:1
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    1Better is a poor person who walks in his integrity than one who is perverse in his speech and is a fool.

  • 1 Pet 1:22
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    22You have purified your souls by obeying the truth in order to show sincere mutual love. So love one another earnestly from a pure heart.

  • Prov 26:19
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    19so is a person who has deceived his neighbor, and said,“Was I not only joking?”

  • Jas 1:16
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    16Do not be led astray, my dear brothers and sisters.

  • 1 John 1:8
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    8If we say we do not bear the guilt of sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us.

  • 1 Tim 6:4
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    4he is conceited and understands nothing, but has an unhealthy interest in controversies and verbal disputes. This gives rise to envy, dissension, slanders, evil suspicions,