James 3:13
Who is wise and endued with knowledge among you? Let him show, out of his good deportment, his works in meekness of wisdom.
The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)
In The King James Version
In Context
12Can a fig-tree, my brethren, bear olives, or a vine figs? Neither can salt water yield fresh.
14But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, do not glory, and lie against the truth.
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 →