James 3:4

World English Bible (2000)

Behold, the ships also, though they are so big and are driven by fierce winds, are yet guided by a very small rudder, wherever the pilot desires.

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  • Ps 107:25-27 : 25 For he commands, and raises the stormy wind, which lifts up its waves. 26 They mount up to the sky; they go down again to the depths. Their soul melts away because of trouble. 27 They reel back and forth, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' end.
  • Jonah 1:4 : 4 But Yahweh sent out a great wind on the sea, and there was a mighty storm on the sea, so that the ship was likely to break up.
  • Matt 8:24 : 24 Behold, a violent storm came up on the sea, so much that the boat was covered with the waves, but he was asleep.
  • Acts 27:14-38 : 14 But before long, a stormy wind beat down from shore, which is called Euroclydon. 15 When the ship was caught, and couldn't face the wind, we gave way to it, and were driven along. 16 Running under the lee of a small island called Clauda, we were able, with difficulty, to secure the boat. 17 After they had hoisted it up, they used cables to help reinforce the ship. Fearing that they would run aground on the Syrtis sand bars, they lowered the sea anchor, and so were driven along. 18 As we labored exceedingly with the storm, the next day they began to throw things overboard. 19 On the third day, they threw out the ship's tackle with their own hands. 20 When neither sun nor stars shone on us for many days, and no small storm pressed on us, all hope that we would be saved was now taken away. 21 When they had been long without food, Paul stood up in the middle of them, and said, "Sirs, you should have listened to me, and not have set sail from Crete, and have gotten this injury and loss. 22 Now I exhort you to cheer up, for there will be no loss of life among you, but only of the ship. 23 For there stood by me this night an angel, belonging to the God whose I am and whom I serve, 24 saying, 'Don't be afraid, Paul. You must stand before Caesar. Behold, God has granted you all those who sail with you.' 25 Therefore, sirs, cheer up! For I believe God, that it will be just as it has been spoken to me. 26 But we must run aground on a certain island." 27 But when the fourteenth night had come, as we were driven back and forth in the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors surmised that they were drawing near to some land. 28 They took soundings, and found twenty fathoms. After a little while, they took soundings again, and found fifteen fathoms. 29 Fearing that we would run aground on rocky ground, they let go four anchors from the stern, and wished for daylight. 30 As the sailors were trying to flee out of the ship, and had lowered the boat into the sea, pretending that they would lay out anchors from the bow, 31 Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, "Unless these stay in the ship, you can't be saved." 32 Then the soldiers cut away the ropes of the boat, and let it fall off. 33 While the day was coming on, Paul begged them all to take some food, saying, "This day is the fourteenth day that you wait and continue fasting, having taken nothing. 34 Therefore I beg you to take some food, for this is for your safety; for not a hair will perish from any of your heads." 35 When he had said this, and had taken bread, he gave thanks to God in the presence of all, and he broke it, and began to eat. 36 Then they all cheered up, and they also took food. 37 In all, we were two hundred seventy-six souls on the ship. 38 When they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, throwing out the wheat into the sea.

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    2For in many things we all stumble. If anyone doesn't stumble in word, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also.

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  • Jas 3:5-7
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    5So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest!

    6And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna.

    7For every kind of animal, bird, creeping thing, and thing in the sea, is tamed, and has been tamed by mankind.

  • Ps 104:25-26
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    25There is the sea, great and wide, in which are innumerable living things, both small and large animals.

    26There the ships go, and leviathan, whom you formed to play there.

  • Acts 27:39-41
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    39When it was day, they didn't recognize the land, but they noticed a certain bay with a beach, and they decided to try to drive the ship onto it.

    40Casting off the anchors, they left them in the sea, at the same time untying the rudder ropes. Hoisting up the foresail to the wind, they made for the beach.

    41But coming to a place where two seas met, they ran the vessel aground. The bow struck and remained immovable, but the stern began to break up by the violence of the waves.

  • Ps 107:23-25
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    23Those who go down to the sea in ships, who do business in great waters;

    24These see Yahweh's works, and his wonders in the deep.

    25For he commands, and raises the stormy wind, which lifts up its waves.

  • Acts 27:13-15
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    13When the south wind blew softly, supposing that they had obtained their purpose, they weighed anchor and sailed along Crete, close to shore.

    14But before long, a stormy wind beat down from shore, which is called Euroclydon.

    15When the ship was caught, and couldn't face the wind, we gave way to it, and were driven along.

  • Jonah 1:11-13
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    11Then they said to him, "What shall we do to you, that the sea may be calm to us?" For the sea grew more and more stormy.

    12He said to them, "Take me up, and throw me into the sea. Then the sea will be calm for you; for I know that because of me this great storm is on you."

    13Nevertheless the men rowed hard to get them back to the land; but they could not, for the sea grew more and more stormy against them.

  • Ezek 27:25-26
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    25The ships of Tarshish were your caravans for your merchandise: and you were replenished, and made very glorious in the heart of the seas.

    26Your rowers have brought you into great waters: the east wind has broken you in the heart of the seas.

  • Mark 4:36-38
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    36Leaving the multitude, they took him with them, even as he was, in the boat. Other small boats were also with him.

    37A big wind storm arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so much that the boat was already filled.

    38He himself was in the stern, asleep on the cushion, and they woke him up, and told him, "Teacher, don't you care that we are dying?"

  • Jonah 1:4
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    4But Yahweh sent out a great wind on the sea, and there was a mighty storm on the sea, so that the ship was likely to break up.

  • Prov 21:1
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    1The king's heart is in Yahweh's hand like the watercourses. He turns it wherever he desires.

  • Acts 27:17-19
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    17After they had hoisted it up, they used cables to help reinforce the ship. Fearing that they would run aground on the Syrtis sand bars, they lowered the sea anchor, and so were driven along.

    18As we labored exceedingly with the storm, the next day they began to throw things overboard.

    19On the third day, they threw out the ship's tackle with their own hands.

  • Ps 48:7
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    7With the east wind, you break the ships of Tarshish.

  • Ezek 27:29
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    29All who handled the oar, the mariners, [and] all the pilots of the sea, shall come down from their ships; they shall stand on the land,

  • Matt 14:24
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    24But the boat was now in the middle of the sea, distressed by the waves, for the wind was contrary.

  • Matt 8:24
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    24Behold, a violent storm came up on the sea, so much that the boat was covered with the waves, but he was asleep.

  • Eccl 1:6
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    6The wind goes toward the south, and turns around to the north. It turns around continually as it goes, and the wind returns again to its courses.

  • Job 37:12
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    12It is turned around by his guidance, that they may do whatever he commands them on the surface of the habitable world,

  • Isa 33:23
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    23Your rigging is untied. They couldn't strengthen the foot of their mast. They couldn't spread the sail. Then the prey of a great spoil was divided. The lame took the prey.

  • Ps 107:29-30
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    29He makes the storm a calm, so that its waves are still.

    30Then they are glad because it is calm, so he brings them to their desired haven.

  • Isa 2:16
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    16For all the ships of Tarshish, and for all pleasant imagery.

  • 1 Kgs 9:27
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    27Hiram sent in the navy his servants, sailors who had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.

  • Acts 27:30
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    30As the sailors were trying to flee out of the ship, and had lowered the boat into the sea, pretending that they would lay out anchors from the bow,

  • Ezek 27:8
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    8The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were your rowers: your wise men, Tyre, were in you, they were your pilots.

  • Matt 8:27
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    27The men marveled, saying, "What kind of man is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?"

  • Acts 27:7
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    7When we had sailed slowly many days, and had come with difficulty opposite Cnidus, the wind not allowing us further, we sailed under the lee of Crete, opposite Salmone.

  • Prov 23:34
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    34Yes, you will be as he who lies down in the midst of the sea, or as he who lies on top of the rigging:

  • Luke 8:23
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    23But as they sailed, he fell asleep. A wind storm came down on the lake, and they were taking on dangerous amounts of water.

  • Eccl 8:4
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    4for the king's word is supreme. Who can say to him, "What are you doing?"

  • Matt 14:32
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    32When they got up into the boat, the wind ceased.

  • Ps 89:9
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    9You rule the pride of the sea. When its waves rise up, you calm them.