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¹ Don't many [of you] be teachers, my brothers, knowing that we shall receive heavier judgment.² For in many things we all stumble. If any doesn't stumble in word, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also.³ Now if we put the horses' bridles into their mouths that they may obey us, we turn about their whole body also.⁴ Look, the ships also, though they are so great and are driven by rough winds, are yet turned about by a very small rudder, where the impulse of the steersman wills.⁵ So the tongue also is a little member, and boasts great things. Look, how much wood is kindled by how small a fire!⁶ And the tongue is a fire: the world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the wheel of nature, and is set on fire by hell.⁷ For every kind of beasts and birds, of creeping things and things in the sea, is tamed, and has been tamed by mankind.⁸ But the tongue no man can tame; [it is] a restless evil, [it is] full of deadly poison.⁹ Therewith bless we the Lord and Father; and therewith we curse men, who are made after the likeness of God:¹⁰ out of the same mouth comes forth blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.¹¹ Does the fountain send forth from the same opening sweet [water] and bitter?¹² Can a fig tree, my brothers, yield olives, or a vine figs? Neither [can] salt water yield sweet.

¹³ Who is wise and understanding among you? let him show, by his good life, his works in meekness of wisdom.¹⁴ But if you have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, don't glory and don't lie against the truth.¹⁵ This wisdom is not [a wisdom] that comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.¹⁶ For where jealousy and faction are, there is confusion and every vile deed.¹⁷ But 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.¹⁸ And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace for those that make peace.