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James 3:1

James Moffatt - New Testament

My brothers, do not swell the ranks of the teachers; remember, we teachers will be judged with special strictness.

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doctors of the Law is what they want to be, but they have no idea either of the meaning of the words they use or of the themes on which they harp.

not by way of lording it over your charges but proving a pattern to the flock.

That is to say, God has set people within the church to be first of all apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, then workers of miracles, then healers, helpers, administrators, and speakers in 'tongues' of various kinds.

Woe to you, you impious scribes and Pharisees! you shut the Realm of heaven in men's faces; you neither enter yourselves, nor will you let those enter who are on the point of entering.

and I was appointed to be its herald and apostle (I am not telling a lie, it is quite true), to teach the Gentiles faith and truth.

he granted some men to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, some to shepherd and teach,

for we have all to appear without disguise before the tribunal of Christ, each to be requited for what he has done with his body, well or ill.

Obey your leaders, submit to them; for they are alive to the interests of your souls, as men who will have to account for their trust. Let their work be a joy to them and not a grief — which would be a loss to yourselves.

So he summoned him and said, 'What is this I hear about you? Hand in your accounts; you cannot be factor any longer.'

Of that gospel I have been appointed a herald and an apostle and a teacher,

Jesus replied, "You do not understand this? — you, a teacher in Israel!

A scholar is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his lord;

Also, judge not, and you will not be judged yourselves: condemn not, and you will not be condemned: pardon, and you will be pardoned yourselves:

So when the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples, "Why does your teacher eat with taxgatherers and sinners?"

Now in the local church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers, Barnabas, Symeon (called Niger) and Lucius the Cyrenian, besides Manaen (a foster-brother of Herod the tetrarch) and Saul.

Make no mistake about this, my beloved brothers:

Be sure of that, my beloved brothers. Let everyone be quick to listen, slow to talk, slow to be angry —

blessing and cursing stream from the same lips! My brothers, this ought not to be.




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