These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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James 3
Brit Hadashah 18 verses
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Do not be eager, my brethren, for many among you to become teachers; for you that we teachers shall undergo severer judgement.
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Matthew 23:13 1 Peter 5:3 2 Timothy 1:11 1 Timothy 1:7 Ephesians 4:11 1 Corinthians 11:29-32 1 Corinthians 12:28 Luke 12:47-48 2 Corinthians 5:10 Matthew 23:8-10 1 Timothy 2:7 Hebrews 13:17 Malachi 2:12 1 Corinthians 4:2-5 Acts 20:26-27 Matthew 7:1-2 Ezekiel 33:7-9 Acts 13:1 Matthew 9:11 Ezekiel 3:17-18 Leviticus 10:3 Romans 2:20-21 Matthew 10:24 Luke 6:37 Luke 16:2 John 3:10 -
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For we often stumble and fall, all of us. If there is any one who never stumbles in speech, that man has reached maturity of character and is able to curb his whole nature.
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James 1:26 Matthew 12:37 1 Peter 3:10 Proverbs 13:3 James 3:5-6 Proverbs 20:9 Ecclesiastes 7:20 Isaiah 64:6 1 Kings 8:46 Romans 3:10 Galatians 3:22 Romans 7:21 1 John 1:8-10 James 1:4 Colossians 1:28 1 Corinthians 9:27 Psalm 34:13 Colossians 4:12 1 Peter 5:10 2 Chronicles 6:36 Hebrews 13:21 Galatians 5:17 James 2:10 -
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Remember that we put the horses’ bit into their mouths to make them obey us, and so we turn their whole bodies round.
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So too with ships, great as they are, and often driven along by strong gales, yet they can be steered with a very small rudder in whichever direction the caprice of the man at the helm chooses.
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- 5 In the same way the tongue is an insignificant part of the body, but it is immensely boastful. Remember how a mere spark may set a vast forest in flames.
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And the tongue is a fire. That world of iniquity, the tongue, is placed within us spotting and soiling our whole nature, and setting the whole round of our lives on fire, being itself set on fire by .
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Proverbs 16:27 Mark 7:15 Mark 7:20-22 Matthew 15:11-20 Colossians 3:8-9 Matthew 12:32-36 Proverbs 15:1 Psalm 120:2-3 Numbers 31:16 Revelation 12:9 Jeremiah 20:10 Isaiah 30:27 Ephesians 5:3-4 Genesis 3:4-6 Mark 14:55-57 Matthew 12:24 3 John 1:10 Jude 1:8-10 Romans 16:17-18 2 Samuel 19:43 Revelation 18:23 2 Peter 3:3 Revelation 13:14 Psalm 140:3 Titus 1:11 Jude 1:15-18 Proverbs 1:10-14 Proverbs 26:20-21 1 Kings 21:5-15 Acts 20:30 Acts 6:13 Proverbs 7:21-23 Psalm 64:3 Jeremiah 28:16 Judges 16:15-20 2 Samuel 16:20 2 Samuel 13:26-29 Acts 5:3 James 2:7 2 Chronicles 10:13-16 Romans 3:13-14 Revelation 2:14-15 Revelation 19:20 Matthew 5:22 Revelation 13:1-5 Judges 12:4-6 2 Thessalonians 2:9-12 2 Peter 2:1-2 Leviticus 24:11 2 Corinthians 11:13-15 Proverbs 6:19 2 Chronicles 13:17 Numbers 25:2 1 Samuel 22:9-17 2 Samuel 15:2-6 Luke 16:24 Deuteronomy 13:6 Proverbs 7:5 - 7 For brute nature under all its forms—beasts and birds, reptiles and fishes—can be subjected and kept in subjection by human nature.
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With it we the Lord and Father, and with it we men, who are made in Elohim’s likeness.
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1 Corinthians 11:7 Genesis 1:26-27 Matthew 26:74 Psalm 145:21 Acts 2:26 Ecclesiastes 7:22 Ephesians 1:3 1 Chronicles 29:10 Genesis 9:6 Psalm 16:9 Psalm 62:4 Psalm 57:8 2 Samuel 19:21 Isaiah 29:13 Judges 9:27 1 Chronicles 29:20 Psalm 30:12 Psalm 108:1 1 Peter 1:3 Psalm 145:1 Psalm 51:14 2 Samuel 16:5 Psalm 63:4 Psalm 71:24 Matthew 5:44 Psalm 109:17-18 Psalm 35:28 Psalm 10:7 Psalm 59:12 Romans 3:14 Genesis 5:1 Psalm 34:1 - 10 Out of the same mouth there proceed and cursing. My brethren, this ought not to be.
- 11 In a fountain, are fresh water and bitter sent forth from the same opening?
- 12 Can a fig-tree, my brethren, yield olives, or a vine yield figs? No; and neither can salt water yield sweet.
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Which of you is a wise and well-instructed man? Let him prove it by a right life with conduct guided by a wisely teachable .
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James 2:18 1 Peter 2:12 James 1:21 Ecclesiastes 8:5 Matthew 21:5 Psalm 107:43 Isaiah 29:19 Zephaniah 2:3 Psalm 25:9 2 Corinthians 10:1 Galatians 6:4 James 3:1 Psalm 45:4 Daniel 2:21 Philippians 1:27 2 Corinthians 8:24 Galatians 6:1 Hebrews 13:5 Psalm 149:4 Galatians 5:23 Isaiah 11:3-4 Ecclesiastes 8:1 Titus 3:2 Matthew 11:29 Ephesians 4:2 1 Timothy 4:12 1 Corinthians 6:5 Matthew 5:5 Isaiah 61:1 Isaiah 60:6 Job 28:28 Matthew 7:24 1 Peter 3:1-2 Numbers 12:3 1 Peter 3:4 Jeremiah 9:12 1 Peter 3:15-16 1 Peter 2:9 2 Timothy 2:25 Jeremiah 9:23 James 3:17 2 Chronicles 2:12-13 Colossians 3:12 1 Timothy 6:11 -
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But if in your hearts you have bitter feelings of envy and rivalry, do not speak boastfully and falsely, in defiance of the .
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James 3:16 Philippians 2:3 2 Corinthians 12:20 Philippians 1:15 1 Corinthians 3:3 Acts 5:17 Romans 13:13 1 Corinthians 13:4 Acts 7:9 Proverbs 14:30 Galatians 5:15 Galatians 5:26 Isaiah 11:13 1 Corinthians 4:7-8 Habakkuk 1:3 John 16:2 Romans 2:8 Job 5:2 1 Peter 2:1-2 Romans 1:29 Galatians 6:13 Romans 2:17 Proverbs 27:4 Romans 2:23-29 Matthew 27:18 Titus 3:3 Genesis 37:11 James 4:1-5 1 Timothy 6:4 Galatians 5:21 2 Kings 10:16 Genesis 30:1-2 Acts 26:9 2 Kings 10:31 1 Corinthians 5:6 1 Corinthians 5:2 James 5:19 Acts 13:45 -
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That is not the wisdom which comes down from above: it belongs to earth, to the unspiritual nature, and to evil spirits.
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James 1:17 Jude 1:19 2 Corinthians 1:12 1 Timothy 4:1 1 Corinthians 2:14 James 1:5 James 3:17 1 Corinthians 3:19 Philippians 3:19 2 Samuel 13:3 Luke 16:8 1 John 3:8-10 John 8:44 2 Corinthians 11:3 Revelation 2:24 Acts 13:10 2 Corinthians 11:13-15 Jeremiah 4:22 2 Samuel 15:31 1 Corinthians 1:27 2 Samuel 16:23 Revelation 12:9 Genesis 3:1-5 Romans 1:22 Revelation 9:11 1 Corinthians 1:19-20 1 Corinthians 3:3 John 3:17 2 Thessalonians 2:9 1 Corinthians 2:6-7 -
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For where envy and rivalry are, there also are unrest and every vile deed.
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The wisdom from above is first of all pure, then peaceful, courteous, not self-willed, full of and kind actions, free from favouritism and from all insincerity.
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James 1:17 1 Corinthians 2:6-7 Romans 12:9 Galatians 5:22-23 James 1:5 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 1 John 3:3 1 Peter 1:22 James 2:4 James 4:8 Hebrews 12:11 Luke 21:15 Isaiah 32:15-17 Job 28:28 James 3:15 Titus 3:2 Colossians 1:10 Hebrews 12:14 Luke 6:36 Isaiah 11:2-9 Proverbs 2:6 1 Thessalonians 2:7 John 1:14 Philippians 4:8 Romans 12:18 Job 28:23 1 Kings 3:28 Matthew 23:28 Isaiah 2:4 Genesis 41:38-39 Malachi 3:3 2 Corinthians 10:1 1 John 3:18 Titus 1:15 Philippians 1:11 Exodus 36:2 Isaiah 40:11 2 Timothy 2:24 Malachi 2:9 2 Corinthians 9:10 Daniel 1:17 1 Kings 3:12 Job 28:12 Luke 12:1-2 1 Timothy 5:21 John 1:47 Isaiah 32:6 Acts 9:36 Acts 11:24 Isaiah 9:6-7 1 Peter 2:1 1 Kings 3:9 1 Corinthians 12:8 Ephesians 5:9 Matthew 5:8 1 Chronicles 22:12 1 Chronicles 22:9 Romans 15:14 - 18 And , for those who strive for , is the seed of which the harvest is .