James 3:10 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁰ From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brethren, this ought not to be so.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁰ Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁰ Out of the same mouth come forth blessing and cursing. These things, my brethren, ought not to be so.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁰ out of the same mouth cometh forth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.

Common English Bible

¹⁰ Blessing and cursing come from the same mouth. My brothers and sisters, it just shouldn’t be this way!

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁰ From the same mouth proceeds blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so!

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁰ Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.

James 3:10 Cross References

Genesis 20:9

Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said to him, “What have you done to us? And how have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and my kingdom a great sin? You have done to me things that ought not to be done.”

2 Samuel 13:12

She answered him, “No, my brother, do not force me; for such a thing is not done in Israel; do not do this wanton folly.

Micah 3:11

Its heads give judgment for a bribe, its priests teach for hire, its prophets divine for money; yet they lean upon the Lord and say, “Is not the Lord in the midst of us? No evil shall come upon us.”

Romans 12:14

Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them.

1 Corinthians 3:3

for you are still of the flesh. For while there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh, and behaving like ordinary men?

1 Timothy 5:13

Besides that, they learn to be idlers, gadding about from house to house, and not only idlers but gossips and busybodies, saying what they should not.

James 1:16

Do not be deceived, my beloved brethren.

James 1:19

Know this, my beloved brethren. Let every man be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,

James 3:1

Let not many of you become teachers, my brethren, for you know that we who teach shall be judged with greater strictness.

James 3:11

Does a spring pour forth from the same opening fresh water and brackish?

James 3:9

With it we bless the Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who are made in the likeness of God.

1 Peter 3:9

Do not return evil for evil or reviling for reviling; but on the contrary bless, for to this you have been called, that you may obtain a blessing.