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3:1  Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, since you know that we will be judged more severely.
3:2  For we all stumble in many ways; if someone does not stumble in what he says, he is a mature man who can bridle his whole body.
3:3  If we put a bit into a horse’s mouth to make it obey us, we control its whole body as well.
3:4  And think of a ship — although it is huge and is driven by strong winds, yet the pilot can steer it wherever he wants with just a small rudder.
3:5  So too the tongue is a tiny part of the body, yet it boasts great things. See how a little fire sets a whole forest ablaze!
3:6  Yes, the tongue is a fire, a world of wickedness. The tongue is so placed in our body that it defiles every part of it, setting ablaze the whole of our life; and it is set on fire by Gei-Hinnom itself.
3:7  For people have tamed and continue to tame all kinds of animals, birds, reptiles and sea creatures;
3:8  but the tongue no one can tame — it is an unstable and evil thing, full of death-dealing poison!
3:9  With it we bless Adonai, the Father; and with it we curse people, who were made in the image of God.
3:10  Out of the same mouth come blessing and cursing! Brothers, it isn’t right for things to be this way.
3:11  A spring doesn’t send both fresh and bitter water from the same opening, does it?
3:12  Can a fig tree yield olives, my brothers? or a grapevine, figs? Neither does salt water produce fresh.
3:13  Who among you is wise and understanding? Let him demonstrate it by his good way of life, by actions done in the humility that grows out of wisdom.
3:14  But if you harbor in your hearts bitter jealousy and selfish ambition, don’t boast and attack the truth with lies!
3:15  This wisdom is not the kind that comes down from above; on the contrary, it is worldly, unspiritual, demonic.
3:16  For where there are jealousy and selfish ambition, there will be disharmony and every foul practice.
3:17  But the wisdom from above is, first of all, pure, then peaceful, kind, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy.
3:18  And peacemakers who sow seed in peace raise a harvest of righteousness.