The Tongue

If any one doth think to be religious among you, not bridling his tongue, but deceiving his heart, of this one vain <FI>is<Fi> the religion;

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;

and the tongue no one of men is able to subdue, <FI>it is<Fi> an unruly evil, full of deadly poison,

Let no corrupt word out of your mouth go forth, but what is good unto the needful building up, that it may give grace to the hearers;

and the tongue <FI>is<Fi> 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.

Many teachers become not, my brethren, having known that greater judgment we shall receive, — read the full passage →

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

`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; — read the full passage →

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

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

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

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

but the things coming forth from the mouth from the heart do come forth, and these defile the man;

`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;

not that which is coming into the mouth doth defile the man, but that which is coming forth from the mouth, this defileth the man.'

your word always in grace--with salt being seasoned--to know how it behoveth you to answer each one.

but I--I say to you, that every one who is angry at his brother without cause, shall be in danger of the judgment, and whoever may say to his brother, Empty fellow! shall be in danger of the sanhedrim, and whoever may say, Rebel! shall be in danger of the gehenna of the fire.

for from thy words thou shalt be declared righteous, and from thy words thou shalt be declared unrighteous.'

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, — read the full passage →

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

A sepulchre opened <FI>is<Fi> their throat; with their tongues they used deceit; poison of asps <FI>is<Fi> under their lips.

`The good man out of the good treasure of his heart doth bring forth that which <FI>is<Fi> good; and the evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart doth bring forth that which <FI>is<Fi> evil; for out of the abounding of the heart doth his mouth speak.

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

Many teachers become not, my brethren, having known that greater judgment we shall receive, — read the full passage →

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

Pursue the love, and seek earnestly the spiritual things, and rather that ye may prophecy, — read the full passage →

All things do without murmurings and reasonings,

My little children, may we not love in word nor in tongue, but in word and in truth!

for it hath been written, `I live! saith the Lord--to Me bow shall every knee, and every tongue shall confess to God;'

Having put aside, then, all evil, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envyings, and all evil speakings,

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

lo, the bits we put into the mouths of the horses for their obeying us, and their whole body we turn about; — read the full passage →

that if thou mayest confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and mayest believe in thy heart that God did raise him out of the dead, thou shalt be saved,

Remind them to be subject to principalities and authorities, to obey rule, unto every good work to be ready, — read the full passage →

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. — read the full passage →

`Ye are of a father--the devil, and the desires of your father ye will to do; he was a man-slayer from the beginning, and in the truth he hath not stood, because there is no truth in him; when one may speak the falsehood, of his own he speaketh, because he is a liar--also his father.

`Brood of vipers! how are ye able to speak good things--being evil? for out of the abundance of the heart doth the mouth speak.

Whence <FI>are<Fi> wars and fightings among you? not thence--out of your passions, that are as soldiers in your members? — read the full passage →

Who <FI>is<Fi> wise and intelligent among you? let him shew out of the good behaviour his works in meekness of wisdom,

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,

so also the tongue is a little member, and doth boast greatly; lo, a little fire how much wood it doth kindle! — read the full passage →

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

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;

and the serpent did cast forth after the woman, out of his mouth, water as a river, that he may cause her to be carried away by the river,

Pursue the love, and seek earnestly the spiritual things, and rather that ye may prophecy,

and he doth call near the twelve, and he began to send them forth two by two, and he was giving them power over the unclean spirits,

for I fear lest, having come, not such as I wish I may find you, and I--I may be found by you such as ye do not wish, lest there be strifes, envyings, wraths, revelries, evil-speakings, whisperings, puffings up, insurrections,