26If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn't bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man's religion is worthless.


In Context

23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror;

24 for he sees himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.

25 But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom, and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.

26 If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn't bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man's religion is worthless.

27 Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

James 1:26 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:26If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion [is] vain.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

1:26If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not keep a tight rein on his tongue, he deceives himself and his religion is worthless.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

1:26And if any man think himself to be religious, not bridling his tongue, but deceiving his own heart, this man's religion is vain.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

1:26If any man thinketh himself to be religious, while he bridleth not his tongue but deceiveth his heart, this man's religion is vain.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:26If any one think himself to be religious, not bridling his tongue, but deceiving his heart, this man's religion is vain.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

1:26If any man thinketh himself to be religious, while he bridleth not his tongue but deceiveth his heart, this man's religion is vain.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:26If any man among you seemeth to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

1:26If any one doth think to be religious among you, not bridling his tongue, but deceiving his heart, of this one vain is the religion;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:26If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridles not his tongue, but deceives his own heart, this man's religion is vain.