31 My brethren, let not many of you be teachers, knowing that we teachers✽ will receive more severe judgment. 2 For all of us go wrong in many ways. If anyone does not go wrong✽ in what he says,✽ that person is a complete man, able also to control the whole body.3 ✽See, we put bits in the horses’ mouths, so that they may obey us, and we turn about their whole body. 4 See also the ships. Though they are so large, and are driven by fierce winds, yet they are turned about with a very small rudder, wherever the pilot desires. 5 Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasts great things. See, what a great forest is set on fire by such a little flame! 6 ✽And the tongue is a flame,✽ a world of evil. Among our members the tongue is such that it defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is itself set on fire by hell.7 ✽All kinds of beasts and birds, and serpents, and creatures in the sea, are being tamed, and have been tamed, by man. 8 But the tongue no one can tame. It is an unruly✽ evil, full of deadly poison.✽ 9 ✽With it we praise God, the Father, and with it we curse men who have been made in the likeness of God.✽ 10 Out of the same mouth proceeds praising and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not to be so. 11 ✽Does a spring send forth from the same place sweet and bitter water? 12 Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olives? Or a vine, figs? In the same way no spring can give both salt water and fresh.13 ✽✽Who is a wise man and has understanding among you? Let him show it by good behaviour, by his deeds with the meekness produced by wisdom. 14 But if you have bitter envy✽ and strife in your hearts, do not boast,✽ and do not deny the truth. 15 ✽This wisdom does not come down from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. 16 ✽For where envy and strife are, there is confusion and every evil work.17 But the wisdom that is from above✽ is first pure,✽ then peaceable, gentle, readily obedient, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. 18 ✽And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/innersculpting/message
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