James 3:6 Cross References - Goodspeed

⁶ And the tongue is a fire, a world of wrong the tongue proves in our bodies, soiling the whole body and setting fire to the whole round of nature, and set on fire itself by hell.

²² But I tell you that anyone who gets angry with his brother will have to answer to the court, and anyone who speaks contemptuously to his brother will have to answer to the great council, and anyone who says to his brother 'You cursed fool!' will have to answer for it in the fiery pit!

²⁴ But when the Pharisees heard of it they said, "This man cannot drive out demons except by the aid of Beelzebub, the prince of the demons."

³² And whoever speaks against the Son of Man will be forgiven for it, but whoever speaks against the holy Spirit cannot be forgiven for it, either in this world or in the world to come. ³³ "You must either make the tree sound and its fruit sound, or make the tree bad and its fruit bad; a tree is judged by its fruit. ³⁴ You brood of snakes! how can you, bad as you are, utter anything good? For the mouth says only what the heart is full of. ³⁵ A good man, out of the good he has accumulated, brings out things that are good, and a bad man, out of what he has accumulated that is bad, brings out things that are bad. ³⁶ But I tell you, for every careless word that men utter they will have to answer on the Day of Judgment.

¹¹ "Listen to this, and grasp it! It is not what goes into a man's mouth that pollutes him; it is what comes out of his mouth that pollutes a man." ¹² Then his disciples came up to him and said to him, "Do you know that the Pharisees were shocked to hear you say that?" ¹³ But he answered, "Any plant that my heavenly Father did not plant must be uprooted! ¹⁴ Leave them alone. They are blind guides! But if one blind man leads another, they will both fall into the ditch!" ¹⁵ Peter said to him, "Explain the figure for us." ¹⁶ He said, "Have even you no understanding yet? ¹⁷ Can you not see that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the stomach and then is disposed of? ¹⁸ But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and they pollute a man. ¹⁹ For out of the heart come wicked designs, murder, adultery, immorality, stealing, false witness, impious speech. ²⁰ It is these things that pollute a man, but not eating with unwashed hands!"

¹⁵ Nothing that goes into a man from outside can pollute him. It is what comes out of a man that pollutes him."

²⁰ He went on to say, "It is what comes out of a man that pollutes him. ²¹ For it is from inside, from men's hearts, that designs of evil come; immorality, stealing, murder, adultery, ²² greed, malice, deceit, indecency, envy, abusiveness, arrogance, folly—

⁵⁵ The high priests and the whole council tried to get evidence against Jesus in order to put him to death, and they could find none, ⁵⁶ for while many gave false testimony against him their evidence did not agree. ⁵⁷ Some got up and gave false testimony against him to this effect:

²⁴ And he called to him and said, 'Father Abraham! take pity on me, and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am in torment, here in the flames!'

³ And Peter said, "Ananias, why has Satan taken such possession of your heart that you should lie to the holy Spirit, by appropriating part of the price of your land?

¹³ Then they brought forward false witnesses, who said, "This man is constantly saying things against this holy place and against the Law,

³⁰ and from your own number men will appear and teach perversions of the truth in order to draw the disciples away after them.

¹³ Their throats are like open graves, They use their tongues to deceive; The venom of asps is behind their lips, ¹⁴ And their mouths are full of bitter curses.

¹⁷ I beg you, brothers, to be on the watch for those who introduce divisions and difficulties, in opposition to the instruction that you were given, and to avoid them. ¹⁸ Such men are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own base passions, and with their plausible and flattering talk they deceive simple-minded people.

¹³ Such men are sham apostles, dishonest workmen, masquerading as apostles of Christ. ¹⁴ And no wonder, for even Satan himself masquerades as a shining angel. ¹⁵ So it is nothing strange if his servants also masquerade as servants of uprightness. But their doom will fit their actions.

³ But immorality or any form of vice or greed must not be so much as mentioned among you; that would not be becoming in God's people. ⁴ There must be no indecency or foolish or scurrilous talk—all that is unbecoming. There should be thanksgiving instead.

⁸ But now you too must put them all aside—anger, rage, spite, rough, abusive talk—these must be banished from your lips. ⁹ You must not lie to one another. For you have stripped off your old self with its ways

⁹ The other's appearance, by the contrivance of Satan, will be full of power and pretended signs and wonders, ¹⁰ and full of wicked deception for men who are going to destruction, because they refused to love the truth and be saved. ¹¹ This is why God sends upon them a misleading influence, to make them believe what is false, ¹² so that all who have refused to believe the truth but have preferred disobedience may be condemned.

¹¹ They must be silenced, for such men upset whole households by teaching things they ought not to teach, for the sake of dishonest gain.

⁷ Is it not they who slander the noble name you bear?

¹ There were false prophets too among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will introduce destructive sects and deny the Master who has bought them, thus bringing on themselves swift destruction. ² Many people will follow their immoral ways, and they will cause the true way to be maligned.

³ First of all, you must understand this, that in the last days mockers will come with their mockeries, going where their passions lead

¹⁰ So if I come, I will bring up the things that he is doing, and how he is maliciously accusing me. Not content with that, he refuses to welcome the brothers himself, and he is interfering with those who want to do so, and has them put out of the church.

⁸ In that same way these dreamers defile the body, make light of authority, and deride majesty. ⁹ The archangel Michael himself, when he had the dispute with the devil about Moses' body, did not venture to condemn him for blasphemy; he only said, "May the Lord rebuke you!" ¹⁰ But these people deride anything they do not understand, and the things they know by instinct, like unreasoning animals, they use for their own destruction.

¹⁵ to execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the godless of all the godless deeds they have done, and of all the harsh things that godless sinners have said against him." ¹⁶ These men are grumblers, dissatisfied with life. They go where their passions lead, their talk is arrogant and they cultivate people in the hope of gain. ¹⁷ But you, dear friends, must remember what was foretold by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ, ¹⁸ for they said to you, "In the last times there will be mockers who will go where their own godless passions lead."

¹⁴ Yet I hold it somewhat against you that you have among you some adherents of the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to entrap the children of Israel into eating meat that had been sacrificed to idols, and into immoral practices. ¹⁵ So you also have among you some who hold the teaching of the Nicolaitans.

⁹ So the great dragon, the ancient serpent who is called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world, was hurled down to the earth, and his angels were hurled down with him.

¹ Then I stood on the sand of the seashore, and I saw an animal come up out of the sea with ten horns and seven heads, and with ten diadems on its horns, and blasphemous titles on its heads. ² The animal I saw was like a leopard, its feet were like a bear's, and its mouth was like a lion's mouth. The dragon gave it his own power and his throne and great authority. ³ One of its heads seemed to have received a mortal wound, but its mortal wound had been healed. And the whole earth followed the animal in wonder, ⁴ and worshiped the dragon for having given the animal his authority, and they worshiped the animal, and said, "Who is there like the animal? Who can fight with it?" ⁵ It was allowed to utter great boasts and blasphemies, and to exert authority for forty-two months.

¹⁴ It leads the inhabitants of the earth astray by the wonders it is allowed to do on behalf of the animal, telling the inhabitants of the earth to erect a statue to the animal that bears the mark of the sword-thrust and yet lives.

²³ no light of any lamp will ever shine in you again; no voice of bride or bridegroom will ever be heard in you again. For your merchants were the great men of the earth; by your magic all the heathen have been led astray,

²⁰ And the animal was captured and with it the false prophet who performed wonders on its behalf by means of which he led astray those who had let the animal's mark be put on them and who worshiped its statue. Both of them were flung alive into the fiery lake of burning brimstone.