James 3:10
Out of the same mouth come forth blessing and cursing. These things, my brethren, ought not so to be.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.
In Context
11Does a fountain send forth from the same cavern sweet water and bitter?
Cross References
1 Corinthians 3:3for you are yet carnal. For, since envy and strife and divisions are among you, are you not carnal, and do you not walk as men?
1 Peter 3:9not repaying evil for evil, nor reviling for reviling, but, on the other hand, blessing, since you know that for this end you were called, that you might inherit blessing.
Matthew Henry on James 3:2-13
Government of the Tongue. ( a. d. 61.) 1 My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation. 2 For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body. 3 Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body. 4 Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm,… Read the whole commentary →