James 3:2

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

for we all make many stumbles; if any one in word doth not stumble, this one `is' a perfect man, able to bridle also the whole body;

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  • Jas 1:26 : 26 If any one doth think to be religious among you, not bridling his tongue, but deceiving his heart, of this one vain `is' the religion;
  • Matt 12:37 : 37 for from thy words thou shalt be declared righteous, and from thy words thou shalt be declared unrighteous.'
  • 1 Pet 3:10 : 10 for `he who is willing to love life, and to see good days, let him guard his tongue from evil, and his lips -- not to speak guile;
  • Jas 3:5-6 : 5 so also the tongue is a little member, and doth boast greatly; lo, a little fire how much wood it doth kindle! 6 and the tongue `is' a fire, the world of the unrighteousness, so the tongue is set in our members, which is spotting our whole body, and is setting on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by the gehenna.
  • Prov 13:3 : 3 Whoso is keeping his mouth, is keeping his soul, Whoso is opening wide his lips -- ruin to him!
  • Prov 20:9 : 9 Who saith, `I have purified my heart, I have been cleansed from my sin?'
  • Eccl 7:20 : 20 Because there is not a righteous man on earth that doth good and sinneth not.
  • Isa 64:6 : 6 And we are as unclean -- all of us, And as a garment passing away, all our righteous acts; And we fade as a leaf -- all of us. And our iniquities as wind do take us away.
  • Rom 3:10 : 10 according as it hath been written -- `There is none righteous, not even one;
  • 1 Kgs 8:46 : 46 `When they sin against Thee (for there is not a man who sinneth not), and Thou hast been angry with them, and hast given them up before an enemy, and they have taken captive their captivity unto the land of the enemy far off or near;
  • Gal 3:22 : 22 but the Writing did shut up the whole under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ may be given to those believing.
  • Rom 7:21 : 21 I find, then, the law, that when I desire to do what is right, with me the evil is present,
  • Jas 1:4 : 4 and let the endurance have a perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire -- in nothing lacking;
  • 1 John 1:8-9 : 8 if we may say -- `we have not sin,' ourselves we lead astray, and the truth is not in us; 9 if we may confess our sins, stedfast He is and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from every unrighteousness; 10 if we may say -- `we have not sinned,' a liar we make Him, and His word is not in us.
  • 1 Pet 5:10 : 10 And the God of all grace, who did call you to His age-during glory in Christ Jesus, having suffered a little, Himself make you perfect, establish, strengthen, settle `you';
  • 1 Cor 9:27 : 27 but I chastise my body, and bring `it' into servitude, lest by any means, having preached to others -- I myself may become disapproved.
  • Gal 5:17 : 17 for the flesh doth desire contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit contrary to the flesh, and these are opposed one to another, that the things that ye may will -- these ye may not do;
  • Col 1:28 : 28 whom we proclaim, warning every man, and teaching every man, in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus,
  • Col 4:12 : 12 Salute you doth Epaphras, who `is' of you, a servant of Christ, always striving for you in the prayers, that ye may stand perfect and made full in all the will of God,
  • Heb 13:21 : 21 make you perfect in every good work to do His will, doing in you that which is well-pleasing before Him, through Jesus Christ, to whom `is' the glory -- to the ages of the ages! Amen.
  • 2 Chr 6:36 : 36 `When they sin against Thee -- for there is not a man who sinneth not -- and Thou hast been angry with them, and hast given them before an enemy, and taken them captive have their captors, unto a land far off or near;
  • Ps 34:13 : 13 Keep thy tongue from evil, And thy lips from speaking deceit.
  • Jas 2:10 : 10 for whoever the whole law shall keep, and shall stumble in one `point', he hath become guilty of all;

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    3 lo, the bits we put into the mouths of the horses for their obeying us, and their whole body we turn about;

    4 lo, also the ships, being so great, and by fierce winds being driven, are led about by a very small helm, whithersoever the impulse of the helmsman doth counsel,

    5 so also the tongue is a little member, and doth boast greatly; lo, a little fire how much wood it doth kindle!

    6 and the tongue `is' a fire, the world of the unrighteousness, so the tongue is set in our members, which is spotting our whole body, and is setting on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by the gehenna.

    7 For every nature, both of beasts and of fowls, both of creeping things and things of the sea, is subdued, and hath been subdued, by the human nature,

    8 and the tongue no one of men is able to subdue, `it is' an unruly evil, full of deadly poison,

    9 with it we do bless the God and Father, and with it we do curse the men made according to the similitude of God;

    10 out of the same mouth doth come forth blessing and cursing; it doth not need, my brethren, these things so to happen;

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    1 Many teachers become not, my brethren, having known that greater judgment we shall receive,

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    10 for whoever the whole law shall keep, and shall stumble in one `point', he hath become guilty of all;

  • Jas 1:25-26
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    25 and he who did look into the perfect law -- that of liberty, and did continue there, this one -- not a forgetful hearer becoming, but a doer of work -- this one shall be happy in his doing.

    26 If any one doth think to be religious among you, not bridling his tongue, but deceiving his heart, of this one vain `is' the religion;

  • Jas 1:19-20
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    19 So then, my brethren beloved, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,

    20 for the wrath of a man the righteousness of God doth not work;

  • 2 Cor 6:3
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    3 in nothing giving any cause of offence, that the ministration may be not blamed,

  • Titus 2:8
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    8 discourse sound, irreprehensible, that he who is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having nothing evil to say concerning you.

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    15 As many, therefore, as `are' perfect -- let us think this, and if `in' anything ye think otherwise, this also shall God reveal to you,

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    19 In the abundance of words transgression ceaseth not, And whoso is restraining his lips `is' wise.

  • 1 Pet 3:10
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    10 for `he who is willing to love life, and to see good days, let him guard his tongue from evil, and his lips -- not to speak guile;

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    23 because, if any one is a hearer of the word and not a doer, this one hath been like to a man viewing his natural face in a mirror,

  • Prov 21:23
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    23 Whoso is keeping his mouth and his tongue, Is keeping from adversities his soul.

  • Titus 3:2-3
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    2 of no one to speak evil, not to be quarrelsome -- gentle, showing all meekness to all men,

    3 for we were once -- also we -- thoughtless, disobedient, led astray, serving desires and pleasures manifold, in malice and envy living, odious -- hating one another;

  • Jas 5:12
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    12 And before all things, my brethren, do not swear, neither by the heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath, and let your Yes be Yes, and the No, No; that under judgment ye may not fall.

  • 2 Tim 3:17
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    17 that the man of God may be fitted -- for every good work having been completed.

  • Gal 6:1
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    1 Brethren, if a man also may be overtaken in any trespass, ye who `are' spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of meekness, considering thyself -- lest thou also may be tempted;

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    13 Who `is' wise and intelligent among you? let him shew out of the good behaviour his works in meekness of wisdom,

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    10 if we may say -- `we have not sinned,' a liar we make Him, and His word is not in us.

  • Prov 15:4
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    4 A healed tongue `is' a tree of life, And perverseness in it -- a breach in the spirit.

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    2 it is more profitable to him if a weighty millstone is put round about his neck, and he hath been cast into the sea, than that he may cause one of these little ones to stumble.

  • Lev 5:4
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    4 `Or when a person sweareth, speaking wrongfully with the lips to do evil, or to do good, even anything which man speaketh wrongfully with an oath, and it hath been hid from him; -- when he hath known then he hath been guilty of one of these;

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    36 `And I say to you, that every idle word that men may speak, they shall give for it a reckoning in a day of judgment;

  • Ps 39:1
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    1 To the Overseer, to Jeduthun. -- A Psalm of David. I have said, `I observe my ways, Against sinning with my tongue, I keep for my mouth a curb, while the wicked `is' before me.'

  • Jas 5:19
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    19 Brethren, if any among you may go astray from the truth, and any one may turn him back,

  • Prov 26:3
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    3 A whip is for a horse, a bridle for an ass, And a rod for the back of fools.

  • Ps 32:9
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    9 Be ye not as a horse -- as a mule, Without understanding, With bridle and bit, its ornaments, to curb, Not to come near unto thee.

  • Eccl 7:21
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    21 Also to all the words that they speak give not thy heart, that thou hear not thy servant reviling thee.

  • Eccl 5:6
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    6 Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin, nor say before the messenger, that `it `is' an error,' why is God wroth because of thy voice, and hath destroyed the work of thy hands?

  • 1 John 1:8
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    8 if we may say -- `we have not sin,' ourselves we lead astray, and the truth is not in us;

  • Col 3:8
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    8 but now put off, even ye, the whole -- anger, wrath, malice, evil-speaking, filthy talking -- out of your mouth.

  • Jas 1:4
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    4 and let the endurance have a perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire -- in nothing lacking;

  • Prov 15:1-2
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    1 A soft answer turneth back fury, And a grievous word raiseth up anger.

    2 The tongue of the wise maketh knowledge good, And the mouth of fools uttereth folly.

  • Jas 4:11
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    11 Speak not one against another, brethren; he who is speaking against a brother, and is judging his brother, doth speak against law, and doth judge law, and if law thou dost judge, thou art not a doer of law but a judge;

  • 2 Cor 2:17
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    17 for we are not as the many, adulterating the word of God, but as of sincerity -- but as of God; in the presence of God, in Christ we do speak.

  • 1 Pet 2:22
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    22 who did not commit sin, nor was guile found in his mouth,

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    40 A disciple is not above his teacher, but every one perfected shall be as his teacher.

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    3 In the mouth of a fool `is' a rod of pride, And the lips of the wise preserve them.

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    8 a two-souled man `is' unstable in all his ways.