Out of one mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren these things ought not so to be.
Bless them which persecute you: bless but curse not.
For ye are yet carnal. As long verily as there is among you envying, strife and dissension: are ye not carnal, and walk after the manner of men?
And also they learn to go from house to house idle, yee not idle only, but also trifling and busybodies, speaking things which are not comely.
¶ Err not my dear brethren.
¶ Wherefore dear brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to wrath.
¶ My brethren, be not every man a master, Remembering how that we shall receive the more damnation.
Doth a fountain send forth at one place sweet water, and bitter also?
Therewith bless we God the father, and therewith curse we men which are made after the similitude of God.
not rendering evil for evil, neither rebuke for rebuke: but contrariwise, bless: remembering that ye are thereunto called, even that ye should be heirs of blessing.