James 3:9

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

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

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  • 1 Cor 11:7 : 7 for a man, indeed, ought not to cover the head, being the image and glory of God, and a woman is the glory of a man,
  • Matt 26:74 : 74 Then began he to anathematise, and to swear -- `I have not known the man;' and immediately did a cock crow,
  • Gen 1:26-27 : 26 And God saith, `Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness, and let them rule over fish of the sea, and over fowl of the heavens, and over cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that is creeping on the earth.' 27 And God prepareth the man in His image; in the image of God He prepared him, a male and a female He prepared them.
  • Acts 2:26 : 26 because of this was my heart cheered, and my tongue was glad, and yet -- my flesh also shall rest on hope,
  • Ps 145:21 : 21 The praise of Jehovah my mouth speaketh, And all flesh doth bless His holy name, To the age and for ever!
  • Eccl 7:22 : 22 For many times also hath thy heart known that thou thyself also hast reviled others.
  • Isa 29:13 : 13 And the Lord saith: Because drawn near hath this people, with its mouth, And with its lips they have honoured Me, And its heart it hath put far off from Me, And their fear of Me is -- A precept of men is taught!
  • Matt 5:44 : 44 but I -- I say to you, Love your enemies, bless those cursing you, do good to those hating you, and pray for those accusing you falsely, and persecuting you,
  • Rom 3:14 : 14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.
  • Eph 1:3 : 3 Blessed `is' the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who did bless us in every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,
  • 1 Pet 1:3 : 3 Blessed `is' the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, according to the abundance of His kindness did beget us again to a living hope, through the rising again of Jesus Christ out of the dead,
  • Gen 5:1 : 1 This `is' an account of the births of Adam: In the day of God's preparing man, in the likeness of God He hath made him;
  • Gen 9:6 : 6 whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man is his blood shed: for in the image of God hath He made man.
  • Judg 9:27 : 27 and go out into the field, and gather their vineyards, and tread, and make praises, and go into the house of their god, and eat and drink, and revile Abimelech.
  • 2 Sam 16:5 : 5 And king David hath come in unto Bahurim, and lo, thence a man is coming out, of the family of the house of Saul, and his name `is' Shimei, son of Gera, he cometh out, coming out and reviling;
  • 2 Sam 19:21 : 21 And Abishai son of Zeruiah answereth and saith, `For this is not Shimei put to death -- because he reviled the anointed of Jehovah?'
  • 1 Chr 29:10 : 10 And David blesseth Jehovah before the eyes of all the assembly, and David saith, `Blessed `art' Thou, Jehovah, God of Israel our father, from age even unto age.
  • 1 Chr 29:20 : 20 And David saith to all the assembly, `Bless, I pray you, Jehovah your God;' and all the assembly bless Jehovah, God of their fathers, and bow and do obeisance to Jehovah, and to the king.
  • Ps 10:7 : 7 Of oaths his mouth is full, And deceits, and fraud: Under his tongue `is' perverseness and iniquity,
  • Ps 16:9 : 9 Therefore hath my heart been glad, And my honour doth rejoice, Also my flesh dwelleth confidently:
  • Ps 30:12 : 12 So that honour doth praise Thee, and is not silent, O Jehovah, my God, to the age I thank Thee!
  • Ps 34:1 : 1 By David, in his changing his behaviour before Abimelech, and he driveth him away, and he goeth. I do bless Jehovah at all times, Continually His praise `is' in my mouth.
  • Ps 35:28 : 28 And my tongue uttereth Thy righteousness, All the day Thy praise!
  • Ps 51:14 : 14 Deliver me from blood, O God, God of my salvation, My tongue singeth of Thy righteousness.
  • Ps 57:8 : 8 Awake, mine honour, awake, psaltery and harp, I awake the morning dawn.
  • Ps 59:12 : 12 The sin of their mouth `is' a word of their lips, And they are captured in their pride, And from the curse and lying they recount.
  • Ps 62:4 : 4 Only -- from his excellency They have consulted to drive away, They enjoy a lie, with their mouth they bless, And with their heart revile. Selah.
  • Ps 63:4 : 4 So I bless Thee in my life, in Thy name I lift up my hands.
  • Ps 71:24 : 24 My tongue also all the day uttereth Thy righteousness, Because ashamed -- because confounded, Have been those seeking my evil!
  • Ps 108:1 : 1 A Song, a Psalm of David. Prepared is my heart, O God, I sing, yea, I sing praise, also my honour.
  • Ps 109:17-18 : 17 And he loveth reviling, and it meeteth him, And he hath not delighted in blessing, And it is far from him. 18 And he putteth on reviling as his robe, And it cometh in as water into his midst, And as oil into his bones.
  • Ps 145:1 : 1 Praise by David. I exalt Thee, my God, O king, And bless Thy name to the age and for ever.

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    10out 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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    14Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.

  • Jas 3:5-8
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    5so also the tongue is a little member, and doth boast greatly; lo, a little fire how much wood it doth kindle!

    6and 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.

    7For 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,

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

  • Prov 30:10-11
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    10Accuse not a servant unto his lord, Lest he disesteem thee, and thou be found guilty.

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    9not giving back evil for evil, or railing for railing, and on the contrary, blessing, having known that to this ye were called, that a blessing ye may inherit;

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    16`Cursed `is' He who is making light of his father and his mother, -- and all the people have said, Amen.

  • Jas 3:1-3
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    1Many teachers become not, my brethren, having known that greater judgment we shall receive,

    2for 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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  • Lev 24:15
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    15`And unto the sons of Israel thou dost speak, saying, When any man revileth his God -- then he hath borne his sin;

  • Rom 12:14
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    14Bless those persecuting you; bless, and curse not;

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    9With a curse ye are cursed! And Me ye are deceiving -- this nation -- all of it.

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    28bless those cursing you, and pray for those accusing you falsely;

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    3Blessed `is' the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who did bless us in every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,

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

  • Job 15:13
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    13For thou turnest against God thy spirit? And hast brought out words from thy mouth:

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    4for God did command, saying, Honour thy father and mother; and, He who is speaking evil of father or mother -- let him die the death;

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    17And he loveth reviling, and it meeteth him, And he hath not delighted in blessing, And it is far from him.

  • Num 23:8
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    8What -- do I pierce? -- God hath not pierced! And what -- am I indignant? -- Jehovah hath not been indignant!

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    33The curse of Jehovah `is' in the house of the wicked. And the habitation of the righteous He blesseth.

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    12and labour, working with `our' own hands; being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer;

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    22For His blessed ones do possess the land, And His reviled ones are cut off.

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    19So then, my brethren beloved, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,

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    10Have we not all one father? Hath not our God prepared us? Wherefore do we deal treacherously, Each against his brother, To pollute the covenant of our fathers?

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    23and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of fowls, and of quadrupeds, and of reptiles.

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    3And I bless those blessing thee, and him who is disesteeming thee I curse, and blessed in thee have been all families of the ground.'

  • Lev 20:9
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    9`For any man who revileth his father and his mother is certainly put to death; his father and his mother he hath reviled: his blood `is' on him.

  • Lam 3:65
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    65Thou givest to them a covered heart, Thy curse to them.

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    30Yea, I have not suffered my mouth to sin, To ask with an oath his life.

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    12The sin of their mouth `is' a word of their lips, And they are captured in their pride, And from the curse and lying they recount.

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    9What, then? are we better? not at all! for we did before charge both Jews and Greeks with being all under sin,

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    5And, if our unrighteousness God's righteousness doth establish, what shall we say? is God unrighteous who is inflicting the wrath? (after the manner of a man I speak)

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    3and thou hast said unto them, Thus said Jehovah God of Israel: Cursed `is' the man who doth not obey the words of this covenant,

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    28`God thou dost not revile, and a prince among thy people thou dost not curse.

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    7do they not themselves speak evil of the good name that was called upon you?

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    1After this hath Job opened his mouth, and revileth his day.

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    9They have set in the heavens their mouth, And their tongue walketh in the earth.

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    6because of which things cometh the anger of God upon the sons of the disobedience,

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    9Then, indeed, fathers of our flesh we have had, chastising `us', and we were reverencing `them'; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of the spirits, and live?

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    22For many times also hath thy heart known that thou thyself also hast reviled others.