James 3:10
Out of the same mouth come blessings and curses. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.
English Majority Text (NT)
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
9With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who are made in the likeness of God.
11The spring does not pour forth from the same opening both the sweet and the bitter water, does it?
Cross References
1 Corinthians 3:3for you are still carnal. For where there are envy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not carnal, and walking according to human principles?
1 Peter 3:9not rendering evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary blessing, knowing that you were called for this purpose, that you may inherit a 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 →