1My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that…
2For in many things we offend all. If…
3Behold, we put bits in the horses’ mouths,…
4Behold also the ships, which though they be…
5Even so the tongue is a little member,…
6And the tongue is a fire, a world…
7For every kind of beasts, and of birds,…
8But the tongue can no man tame; it…
9Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and…
10Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and…
11Doth a fountain send forth at the same…
12Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive…
13Who is a wise man and endued with…
14But if ye have bitter envying and strife…
15This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is…
16For where envying and strife is, there is…
17But the wisdom that is from above is…
18And the fruit of righteousness is sown in…