James 3:2

πολλά, in many ways apart from speech.

εἴ τις ἐν λόγῳ οὐ πραίει. Comp. γλώσσῃ σὺ δεινός· ἄνδρα δʼ οὐδένʼ οἶδʼ ἐγὼ | δίκαιον ὅστις ἐξ ἃπαντος εὖ λέγει. | KP. χωπὶς τό τʼ εἰπεῖν πολλὰ και τὰ καίρια Soph. Oed. Col. 806–808; si volumus aequi omnium rerum judices esse … hoc primum nobis suadeamus neminem nostrum esse sine culpa, Seneca de Ira LI. 27; ἄνθρωπος οὐκ ἔστι δίκαιος ἐν τῇ γῇ ὄς ποιήσει�, Ecclesiastes 7:20.

For the use of οὐ after εἰ, see note James 2:11.

τέλειος, see note James 1:4. The respect in which he is τέλειος is defined by the following clause δυνατὸς—σῶμα. Control over the tongue implies perfect control over the whole body.

For χαλιναγωγῆσαι, see James 1:26. The word suggests the illustration which follows.