Manly Luscombe Commentary on NT
James 3:10
What is the point of this verse? Is it possible to bless and curse with the same tongue? What does James say should not be?
What is the point of this verse? Is it possible to bless and curse with the same tongue? What does James say should not be?
Verse 10. _OUT OF THE SAME MOUTH_] This saying is something like that, Proverbs 18:21: _Death and life are in the power of the tongue_; and on this, for an illustration of St. James' words, hear _Vay...
OUT OF THE SAME MOUTH PROCEEDETH BLESSING AND CURSING - The meaning here may be, either that out of the mouth of man two such opposite things proceed, not referring to the same individual, but to diff...
III. THE EVILS OF THE TONGUE CORRECTED CHAPTER 3 _ 1. The tongue and its work (James 3:1)_ 2. The wisdom which is earthly and the wisdom that is from above (James 3:13) James 3:1 The practical cha...
Do not crowd into the ranks of the teachers, my brothers. You know that we teachers shall be judged more severely than other men; and there are many things in which all of us stumble. This leads to th...
With it we bless the Lord and Father and with it we curse the men who have been made in the likeness of God. From the same mouth there emerge blessing and cursing. These things should not be so, my br...
THE TEACHER'S PERIL (James 3:1) _ 3:1 My brothers, it is a mistake for many of you to become teachers, for you must be well aware that those of us who teach will receive a greater condemnation._ In...
OUT OF. App-104. THESE THINGS, &C. = it is not fitting (Greek. _chre._ Only here) that these things should so be....
_these things ought not so to be_ The verb, strictly. speaking, denotes not so much a state, as the coming into a state: _these things ought not to occur in this way_....
ΟΥ̓ ΧΡΉ. ΧΡΉ. here only in N.T.: IT IS NOT RIGHT or FITTING. It is not the same as δεῖ, which implies moral obligation, duty. Here the unfitness or incongruity is expressed....
2–12. FROM THIS THOUGHT OF THE TEACHING OFFICE AND ITS RESPONSIBILITIES AND FAILURES THERE IS A NATURAL TRANSITION TO THE USE AND GOVERNMENT OF THE TONGUE. Yet so passionate and agitated is the rebuk...
_CONSTANT IN TAMING -- JAMES 3:7-12:_ Man has had success in taming or subduing all of creation, except the tongue. He has had no success in the effort to tame that one thing. The tongue is a restless...
ΕΞΈΡΧΕΤΑΙ _praes. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΕΞΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G1831) выходить, ΚΑΤΆΡΑ (G2671) проклятие, ΧΡΉ (G5534) _praes. ind. act._ безличный гл.; необходимо, должно быть, надо. С последующим инфинитивом; в...
OUT OF THE SAME MOUTH PROCEEDETH, &C.— So that "out of one and the same mouth come forth blessings and praises in one mood, and curses in another. Certainly, my Christian brethren, these contrary uses...
MR. TWO-FACED _Text 3:9-12_ 9. Therewith bless we the Lord and Father; and therewith curse we men, who are made after the likeness of God: 10. Out of the same mouth cometh forth blessing and curs...
CHAPTER VI _THE FOOLISH TEACHER_ James 3:1-12 _Introduction_ In James 1:16; James 1:26 James said Be swift to hear, slow to speak. In a sense, the balance of chapter one develops the thought of how...
Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be. The tongue (AEsop) is at once the best and the worst of things. A man with the same breath blows...
VERSE 10. OUT OF THE SAME MOUTH PROCEEDETH BLESSING AND CURSING. While this is true, the apostle immediately adds: "My brethren, these things ought not so to be." If we love God and bless him, right...
20 The case of Abraham is most helpful in further defining the distinct viewpoints of Paul and James. The former refers us to the fifteenth chapter of Genesis, the latter to the twenty-second. In the...
THE CONTROL OF THE TONGUE 1, 2. Warning against undue eagerness to teach: cp. Matthew 12:37; Matthew 23:7; Romans 2:19; 1 Corinth
WHAT *FAITH SHOULD DO JAMES _IAN MACKERVOY_ The word list at the end explains words with a *star by them. CHAPTER 3 RESPONSIBILITY OF THE TEACHER 3:1-5A V1 My Christian brothers and sisters,...
OUGHT NOT. — The Greek equivalent for this is only found here in the New Testament, and seems strangely weak when we reflect on the usual vehemence of the writer. Was he sadly conscious of the failure...
CHAPTER 15 THE MORAL CONTRADICTIONS IN THE RECKLESS TALKER. James 3:9 IN these concluding sentences of the paragraph respecting sins of the tongue St. James does two things-he shows the moral chaos...
James 3:1-18 form a self-contained section; the subject dealt with is the bridling of the tongue, see above James 1:19; James 1:26-27....
ἐκ τοῦ αὐτοῦ στόματος : This incongruity is often rebuked in Jewish literature; it was the more needed because in earlier days it was not regarded as reprehensible, _cf._ Proverbs 11:26; Proverbs 24:2...
BRIDLE THE TONGUE James 3:1 It is much easier to teach people what they should be and do than to obey our own precepts. Even the best of us stumble in many respects; but our most frequent failures ar...
The writer now proceeded to show the effect of faith on speech. Beginning with the warning against every man setting up to teach, he proceeded to deal with the power of speech. He likened the tongue t...
NO ONE CAN TAME THE TONGUE Mankind has been able to subdue all the animals, but not his tongue. Woods notes that the verb indicates momentary action in regard to taming. One may control his tongue for...
(8) Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be. (8) Secondly, because the order of nature which God has set in things, will not allow things t...
By it we bless God, &c. Such different effects from the same cause, as of blessing God, and cursing men, created to the likeness of God, seem contrary to the ordinary course of nature; from a fountain...
My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation. (2) For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also...
To the reader who enters on the consideration of the epistle of James from the epistles of Paul, the change is great and sudden, and by no means least of all from the epistle to the Hebrews, which, in...
This particular truth ought also to be borne in mind, that severe censors discover their own virulence, which they suddenly vomit forth against their brethren whatever curses they can imagine, after h...
In Chapter 3 the apostle recurs to the tongue, the most ready index to the heart, the proof whether the new man is inaction, whether nature and self-will are under restraint. But there is hardly anyth...
OUT OF THE SAME MOUTH PROCEEDETH BLESSING AND CURSING,.... Which is not only a contradiction, but unnatural, as well as wicked and sinful: MY BRETHREN, THESE THINGS OUGHT NOT SO TO BE: in any, and mu...
Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be. Ver. 10. _Out of the same mouth_] As it did once out of the mouth of Pope Julius II, who in the ba...
_Therewith bless we God_ That is, therewith mankind bless God; for the apostle, as appears from the next clause, did not speak of himself particularly, or of his fellow-apostles, or even of true priva...
Warning against the abuse of the tongue:...
OUT OF THE SAME MOUTH PROCEEDETH BLESSING AND CURSING. MY BRETHREN, THESE THINGS OUGHT NOT SO TO BE...
Here we begin a fourth division of the book, which continues to the end of Ch.4; in which our walk is tested by the circumstances of the world. Certainly in the previous Chapter s there is emphasis al...
"from the same mouth come both blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not to be this way."from the same mouth" -Which reveals something is seriously wrong with. heart that pours out bot...
1-12 We are taught to dread an unruly tongue, as one of the greatest evils. The affairs of mankind are thrown into confusion by the tongues of men. Every age of the world, and every condition of life...
He repeats here, by way of exaggeration, what he had said JAMES 3:9, to show how exceedingly absurd it is that two such contrary actions should proceed from the same agent. THESE THINGS OUGHT NOT SO T...
James 3:10 of G1537 same G846 mouth G4750 proceed G1831 (G5736) blessing G2129 and G2532 cursing G2671 My...
‘Out of the same mouth comes forth blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.' So the same mouth produces blessing and cursing. How treacherous the tongue is. One moment it is...
James 3:10. OUT OF THE SAME MOUTH PROCEEDETH BLESSING AND CURSING. MY BRETHREN, THESE THINGS OUGHT NOT SO TO BE. There is here a moral incongruity. ‘The annals of Christendom,' observes Dean Plumptre,...
OUGHT NOT (ου χρη). The only use of this old impersonal verb (from χραω) in the N.T. It is more like πρεπε (it is appropriate) than δε (it is necessary). It is a moral incongruity for blessing and...
CONTENTS: Control of the tongue. CHARACTERS: God, James. CONCLUSION: The Christian who is not affected by the sins of the tongue but takes care to avoid them, has an undoubted sign of true grace. Th...
James 3:1. _Be not many masters:_ διδασκαλοι, teachers. In some assemblies they might all prophesy one by one, but no man should be too forward; he will never shine as a teacher, unless he _be_ a teac...
WORDS. These are a contradiction! If you love God and praise Him, you cannot curse your fellow-men. You cannot be both holy and unholy at the same time....
JAMES—NOTE ON JAMES 3:1 The Sin of Dissension in the Community. This section is the longest in the letter. It discusses the problems people cause with their speech (James 3:1;...
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ James 3:5. A MATTER.—Better, “a forest.” The picture presented is of the wrapping of some vast forest in a flame by the falling of a single spark. _Philo_ uses the same...
EXPOSITION JAMES 3:1 WARNING AGAINST OVER-READINESS TO TEACH, LEADING TO A DISCOURSE ON THE IMPORTANCE OF GOVERNMENT OF
Let's turn to James chapter three. James first of all warns against a desire to teach the Word of God that would stem or emanate just from your own desire to be in front of people or whatever. My bre...
1 Corinthians 3:3; 1 Peter 3:9; 1 Timothy 5:13; 2 Samuel 13:12;...