James 3:10
Out of the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, this should not be.
Text-Critical English 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 God our Father, and with it we curse men, who are made in God's likeness.
11Does a spring pour out fresh water and bitter water from the same opening?
Cross References
1 Corinthians 3:3for you are still of the flesh. For where there is jealousy, strife, and division among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving like mere men?
1 Peter 3:9Do not repay evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but, on the contrary, bless, knowing that to this you were called, so 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 →