10Out of the same mouth goes forth blessing and cursing. It is not right, my brethren, that these things should be thus.


In Context

7 For every species both of beasts and of birds, both of creeping things and of sea animals, is tamed and has been tamed by the human species;

8 but the tongue can no one among men tame; it is an unsettled evil, full of death-bringing poison.

9 Therewith bless we the Lord and Father, and therewith curse we men made after the likeness of God.

10 Out of the same mouth goes forth blessing and cursing. It is not right, my brethren, that these things should be thus.

11 Does the fountain, out of the same opening, pour forth sweet and bitter?

12 Can, my brethren, a fig produce olives, or a vine figs? Neither can salt water make sweet water.

James 3:10 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:10Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

3:10Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing. My brothers, this should not be.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

3:10Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

3:10out of the same mouth cometh forth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

3:10out of the same mouth cometh forth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:10Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:10Out of the same mouth comes forth blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

3:10out of the same mouth doth come forth blessing and cursing; it doth not need, my brethren, these things so to happen;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:10Out of the same mouth proceeds blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not so to be.