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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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OUT OF. App-104.
THESE THINGS, &C. = it is not fitting (Greek. _chre._ Only here) that
these things should so be....
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_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_....
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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....
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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(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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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OUT OF THE SAME MOUTH PROCEEDETH BLESSING AND CURSING. MY BRETHREN,
THESE THINGS OUGHT NOT SO TO BE...
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Warning against the abuse of the tongue:...
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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...
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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?...
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"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...
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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...
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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...
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James 3:10 of G1537 same G846 mouth G4750 proceed G1831 (G5736)
blessing G2129 and G2532 cursing G2671 My...
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‘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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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;...
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_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...
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EXPOSITION
JAMES 3:1
WARNING AGAINST OVER-READINESS TO TEACH, LEADING TO A DISCOURSE ON
THE IMPORTANCE OF GOVERNMENT OF
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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...
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1 Corinthians 3:3; 1 Peter 3:9; 1 Timothy 5:13; 2 Samuel 13:12;...