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    "language": "en",
    "book": "james",
    "chapter": 3
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        "n": 1,
        "refId": "JAS-3:1",
        "verseRef": "JAS.3.1",
        "text": "Be not many [of you] teachers, my brethren, knowing that we shall receive heavier judgment."
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "JAS-3:2",
        "verseRef": "JAS.3.2",
        "text": "For in many things we all stumble. If any stumbleth not in word, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "JAS-3:3",
        "verseRef": "JAS.3.3",
        "text": "Now if we put the horses` bridles into their mouths that they may obey us, we turn about their whole body also."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "JAS-3:4",
        "verseRef": "JAS.3.4",
        "text": "Behold, the ships also, though they are so great and are driven by rough winds, are yet turned about by a very small rudder, whither the impulse of the steersman willeth."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "JAS-3:5",
        "verseRef": "JAS.3.5",
        "text": "So the tongue also is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how much wood is kindled by how small a fire!"
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "JAS-3:6",
        "verseRef": "JAS.3.6",
        "text": "And the tongue is a fire: the world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the wheel of nature, and is set on fire by hell."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "JAS-3:7",
        "verseRef": "JAS.3.7",
        "text": "For every kind of beasts and birds, of creeping things and things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed by mankind."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "JAS-3:8",
        "verseRef": "JAS.3.8",
        "text": "But the tongue can no man tame; [it is] a restless evil, [it is] full of deadly poison."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "JAS-3:9",
        "verseRef": "JAS.3.9",
        "text": "Therewith bless we the Lord and Father; and therewith curse we men, who are made after the likeness of God:"
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "JAS-3:10",
        "verseRef": "JAS.3.10",
        "text": "out of the same mouth cometh forth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "JAS-3:11",
        "verseRef": "JAS.3.11",
        "text": "Doth the fountain send forth from the same opening sweet [water] and bitter?"
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "JAS-3:12",
        "verseRef": "JAS.3.12",
        "text": "Can a fig tree, my brethren, yield olives, or a vine figs? Neither [can] salt water yield sweet."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "JAS-3:13",
        "verseRef": "JAS.3.13",
        "text": "Who is wise and understanding among you? let him show by his good life his works in meekness of wisdom."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "JAS-3:14",
        "verseRef": "JAS.3.14",
        "text": "But if ye have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, glory not and lie not against the truth."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "JAS-3:15",
        "verseRef": "JAS.3.15",
        "text": "This wisdom is not [a wisdom] that cometh down from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "JAS-3:16",
        "verseRef": "JAS.3.16",
        "text": "For where jealousy and faction are, there is confusion and every vile deed."
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "JAS-3:17",
        "verseRef": "JAS.3.17",
        "text": "But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without variance, without hypocrisy."
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "JAS-3:18",
        "verseRef": "JAS.3.18",
        "text": "And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace for them that make peace."
      }
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