Yakobus 3:1

The Power of the Tongue

3:1 Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers and sisters, ¹  because you know that we will be judged more strictly. ² 

Yakobus 3:17

3:17 But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, accommodating, ³  full of mercy and good fruit, ⁴  impartial, and not hypocritical. ⁵ 

[3:1]  ¹ tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:2.

[3:1]  ² tn Grk “will receive a greater judgment.”

[3:17]  ³ tn Or “willing to yield,” “open to persuasion.”

[3:17]  ⁴ tn Grk “fruits.” The plural Greek term καρπούς has been translated with the collective singular “fruit.”

[3:17]  ⁵ tn Or “sincere.”