James 3:3 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

³ 2 Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear grapes; or the vine, figs? So neither can the salt water yield sweet.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ If we set bits in the horses' mouths to make them obey us, we can turn their whole bodies about.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ Now if we put the horses’ bridles into their mouths that they may obey us, we turn about their whole body also.

Common English Bible

³ When we bridle horses and put bits in their mouths to lead them wherever we want, we can control their whole bodies.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ For so we put bridles into the mouths of horses, in order to submit them to our will, and so we turn their whole body around.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ For if we put bits into the mouths of horses, that they may obey us, and we turn about their whole body.

James 3:3 Cross References

2 Kings 19:28

3 By the way that he came, he shall return: and into this city he shall not come, saith the Lord.

Job 41:13

0 Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, like that of a pot heated and boiling.

Psalm 32:9

He loveth mercy and judgment; the earth is full of the mercy of the Lord.

Psalm 39:1

Deliver thou me from all my iniquities : thou hast made me a reproach to the fool.

Isaiah 37:29

7 And Sennacherib the king of the Assyrians went out and departed, and returned, and dwelt in Ninive.

James 1:26

If then you fulfil the royal law, according to the scriptures, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself; you do well.

James 3:4

3 Who is a wise man, and endued with knowledge among you? Let him shew, by a good conversation, his work in the meekness of wisdom.