Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said to him, What have you done to us? In what have I offended you, that you have brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? You have done deeds to me that ought not to be done.
James 3:10 - Modern King James Version Out of the same mouth proceeds blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Out of the same mouth come forth blessing and cursing. These things, my brethren, ought not to be so. American Standard Version (1901) out of the same mouth cometh forth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be. Common English Bible Blessing and cursing come from the same mouth. My brothers and sisters, it just shouldn’t be this way! Catholic Public Domain Version 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 Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be. |
Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said to him, What have you done to us? In what have I offended you, that you have brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? You have done deeds to me that ought not to be done.
And she answered him, No, my brother, do not humble me. For no such thing ought to be done in Israel. Do not do this folly.
Her heads judge for a bribe, and her priests teach for pay, and her prophets divine for silver, yet they will lean on Jehovah and say, Is not Jehovah among us? No evil can come on us!
For you are yet carnal. For in that there is among you envyings and strife and divisions, are you not carnal, and do you not walk according to men?
And with it all they also learn to be idle, going around the houses; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things they ought not.
Therefore, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath.
My brothers, do not be many teachers, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.
Does a fountain send forth at the same hole the sweet and the bitter?
By this we bless God, even the Father. And by this we curse men, who have come into being according to the image of God.
Never give back evil for evil, or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary, giving blessing, knowing that you are called to this so that you might inherit blessing.