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3:1  Do not become many teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive a greater judgment.
3:2  For we all stumble many ways. If one does not stumble in speech, this one is a perfect man able to bridle also the whole body.
3:3  Now if we put bridles into the mouths of horses so-that they obey us, we also guide their whole body.
3:4  Behold also ships being so large and being driven by hard winds— they are guided by a very small rudder where the impulse of the one steering wants.
3:5  So also the tongue is a small body-part, and boastfully-declares great things. Behold how-small a fire kindles how-great a forest!
3:6  And the tongue is a fire! The tongue is made the world of  unrighteousness among our body-parts— the thing staining the whole body and setting-on-fire the course of our existence, and being set-on-fire by Gehenna.
3:7  For every nature of both wild-animals and birds, of both reptiles and sea-creatures, is tamed and has been tamed by the human nature.
3:8  But none of mankind is able to tame the tongue— a restless evil, full of death-bringing poison.
3:9  With it we bless the Lord and Father, and with it we curse the people having been made in accordance with the likeness of God;
3:10  a blessing and a curse come out of the same mouth. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.
3:11  The spring does not gush out of the same opening the sweet and the bitter, does it?
3:12  A fig tree is not able, my brothers, to make olives, or a grapevine figs, is it? Neither is salty water able to make sweet water.
3:13  Who is wise and knowledgeable among you? Let him show from his good conduct his works done in the gentleness of wisdom.
3:14  But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish-interest in your heart, do not be vaunting and lying against the truth.
3:15  This wisdom is not coming down from-above, but is earthly, natural, demonic.
3:16  For where jealousy and selfish-interest are, in-that-place there is disorder and every bad thing.
3:17  But the wisdom from-above is first pure, then peaceful, kind, yielding, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial, sincere.
3:18  And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by the ones making peace.