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


In Context

6 and the tongue is fire, the world of unrighteousness; the tongue is set in our members, the defiler of the whole body, and which sets fire to the course of nature, and is set on fire of hell.

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?

James 3:9 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:9Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

3:9With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in God's likeness.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

3:9By it we bless God and the Father: and by it we curse men, who are made after the likeness of God.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

3:9Therewith bless we the Lord and Father; and therewith curse we men, who are made after the likeness of God:

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

3:9Therewith bless we the Lord and Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the likeness of God:

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:9With this we bless God, even the Father; and with this we curse men, who are made after the similitude of God.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:9With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who are made in the image of God.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

3:9with it we do bless the God and Father, and with it we do curse the men made according to the similitude of God;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:9Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.