34 (A)You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, (B)when you are evil? (C)For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

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34 You brood of vipers,(A) how can you who are evil say anything good? For the mouth speaks(B) what the heart is full of.

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And (A)the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, (B)staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life,[a] and set on fire by hell.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. James 3:6 Or wheel of birth
  2. James 3:6 Greek Gehenna

The tongue also is a fire,(A) a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole body,(B) sets the whole course of one’s life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.(C)

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