James 3:10
From the very same mouth come blessings and curses! My friends, it is not right that this should be so.
Open English Bible (US)
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 Lord and Father, and with it we curse people who are made ‘in God’s likeness.’
11Does a spring give both good and bad water from the same source?
Cross References
Genesis 20:9Then Abimelech called Abraham and asked him, “What have you done to us? What harm have I done to you to make you bring this great sin on me and my kingdom? You have done to me something that ought not to be done.”
Psalms 50:16But to the wicked God says: “What right have you to talk of my statutes, or take my covenant into your mouth
Micah 3:11“The leaders render judgment for a bribe, and her priests give oracles for a reward, and her prophets divine for silver. Yet they claim to rely on the Lord, ‘The Lord’, they say, ‘is in our midst. Evil cannot overtake us.’
1 Corinthians 3:3While there exist among you jealousy and party feeling, is it not true that you are worldly, and are acting merely as other people do?
1 Peter 3:9never returning evil for evil, or abuse for abuse, but, on the contrary, blessing. It was to this that you were called – to obtain 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 →