Text: James 1:19-27 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
20 For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
Living Out the Message
(New English Translation)
James 1:21- 24 So put away all filth and evil excess and humbly welcome the message implanted within you, which is able to save your souls.
22 But be sure you live out the message and do not merely listen to it and so deceive yourselves.
23 For if someone merely listens to the message and does not live it out, he is like someone who gazes at his own face in a mirror.
24 For he gazes at himself and then goes out and immediately forgets what sort of person he was.
There are many rewards in righteousness
25 But the one who peers into the perfect law of liberty and fixes his attention there, and does not become a forgetful listener but one who lives it out—he will be blessed in what he does.
It's about the tongue
26 If someone thinks he is religious yet does not bridle his tongue, and so deceives his heart, his religion is futile.
27 Pure and undefiled religion before God the Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their misfortune and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
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Galatians 5:15 But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.
The tongue is powerful
(KING JAMES VERSON)
James 3:2-12 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, whithersoever the governor listeth.
The Tongue is in Charge
5 Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold how great a matter a little fire kindleth!
6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
7 For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:
8 But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
9 Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.
10 Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.
11 Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?
12 Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? Either a vine, figs? So can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh!
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