James 3:2
For we all go wrong in a number of things. If a man never makes a slip in his talk, then he is a complete man and able to keep all his body in control.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
In Context
1Do not all be teachers, my brothers, because we teachers will be judged more hardly than others.
Cross References
1 Kings 8:46If they do wrong against you, (for no man is without sin,) and you are angry with them and give them up into the power of those who are fighting against them, so that they take them away as prisoners into a strange land, far off or near;
Job 15:13So that you are turning your spirit against God, and letting such words go out of your mouth?
Proverbs 13:3He who keeps a watch on his mouth keeps his life; but he whose lips are open wide will have destruction.
Ecclesiastes 7:20There is no man on earth of such righteousness that he does good and is free from sin all his days.
Matthew 12:37For by your words will your righteousness be seen, and by your words you will be judged.
Romans 7:21So I see a law that, though I have a mind to do good, evil is present in me.
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 →