Restraining the Tongue

Not many should become teachers, my brothers, because you[a] know that we will receive a greater judgment.[b] For we all stumble in many ways. If anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect individual,[c] able to hold in check his whole body also.

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Footnotes

  1. James 3:1 Here “because” is supplied as a component of the participle (“know”) which is understood as causal
  2. James 3:1 Or “greater condemnation”
  3. James 3:2 Literally “man,” but clearly in a generic sense here meaning “someone, a person”