1 B e not many of you teachers, my brethren, knowing that we shall receive heavier judgment.

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

2 F or in many things we all stumble. If any stumbleth not in word, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also.

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

3 N ow if we put the horses' bridles into their mouths that they may obey us, we turn about their whole body also.

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

4 B ehold, the ships also, though they are so great and are driven by rough winds, are yet turned about by a very small rudder, whither the impulse of the steersman willeth.

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 S o the tongue also is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how much wood is kindled by how small a fire!

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

6 A nd the tongue is a fire: the world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the wheel of nature, and is set on fire by hell.

and the tongue 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 F or every kind of beasts and birds, of creeping things and things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed by mankind.

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 B ut the tongue can no man tame; it is a restless evil, it is full of deadly poison.

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

9 T herewith bless we the Lord and Father; and therewith curse we men, who are made after the likeness of God:

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 o ut of the same mouth cometh forth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.

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

11 D oth the fountain send forth from the same opening sweet water and bitter?

doth the fountain out of the same opening pour forth the sweet and the bitter?

12 C an a fig tree, my brethren, yield olives, or a vine figs? Neither can salt water yield sweet.

is a fig-tree able, my brethren, olives to make? or a vine figs? so no fountain salt and sweet water to make.

13 W ho is wise and understanding among you? let him show by his good life his works in meekness of wisdom.

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

14 B ut if ye have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, glory not and lie not against the truth.

and if bitter zeal ye have, and rivalry in your heart, glory not, nor lie against the truth;

15 T his wisdom is not a wisdom that cometh down from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.

this wisdom is not descending from above, but earthly, physical, demon-like,

16 F or where jealousy and faction are, there is confusion and every vile deed.

for where zeal and rivalry, there is insurrection and every evil matter;

17 B ut the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without variance, without hypocrisy.

and the wisdom from above, first, indeed, is pure, then peaceable, gentle, easily entreated, full of kindness and good fruits, uncontentious, and unhypocritical: --

18 A nd the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace for them that make peace.

and the fruit of the righteousness in peace is sown to those making peace.