Yakobus 1:19

Living Out the Message

1:19 Understand this, my dear brothers and sisters! ¹  Let every person be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger.

Yakobus 3:2

3:2 For we all stumble ²  in many ways. If someone does not stumble ³  in what he says, ⁴  he is a perfect individual, ⁵  able to control the entire body as well.

[1:19]  ¹ tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:2.

[3:2]  ² tn Or “fail.”

[3:2]  ³ tn Or “fail.”

[3:2]  ⁴ tn Grk “in speech.”

[3:2]  ⁵ tn The word for “man” or “individual” is ἀνήρ (anhr), which often means “male” or “man (as opposed to woman).” But it sometimes is used generically to mean “anyone,” “a person,” as here (cf. BDAG 79 s.v. 2).