003:007 For brute nature under all its forms--beasts and birds,
reptiles and fishes--can be subjected and kept in subjection
by human nature.
003:008 But the tongue no man or woman is able to tame.
It is an ever-busy mischief, and is full of deadly poison.
003:009 With it we bless the Lord and Father, and with it we curse men,
who are made in God's likeness.
003:010 Out of the same mouth there proceed blessing and cursing.
My brethren, this ought not to be.
003:011 In a fountain, are fresh water and bitter sent forth from
the same opening?
003:012 Can a fig-tree, my brethren, yield olives, or a vine yield figs?
No; and neither can salt water yield sweet.
003:013 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 spirit.
003:014 But if in your hearts you have bitter feelings of envy and rivalry,
do not speak boastfully and falsely, in defiance of the truth.
003:015 That is not the wisdom which comes down from above: it belongs
to earth, to the unspiritual nature, and to evil spirits.
003:016 For where envy and rivalry are, there also are unrest and
every vile deed.
003:017 The wisdom from above is first of all pure, then peaceful,
courteous, not self-willed, full of compassion and kind actions,
free from favouritism and from all insincerity.
003:018 And peace, for those who strive for peace, is the seed
of which the harvest is righteousness.
004:001 What causes wars and contentions among you? Is it not the cravings
which are ever at war within you for various pleasures?
004:002 You covet things and yet cannot get them; you commit murder;