Book of Common Prayer
Control Your Tongue And You Will Control Your Life
3 Do not become[a] many[b] teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive a greater judgment. 2 For we all stumble many[c] ways. If one does not stumble in speech, this one is a perfect man able to bridle[d] also the whole body. 3 Now if we put bridles into the mouths of horses so-that they obey us, we also guide their whole body. 4 Behold also ships being so large and being driven by hard winds— they are guided by a very small rudder where the impulse of the one steering wants. 5 So also the tongue is a small body-part, and boastfully-declares great things. Behold how-small a fire kindles how-great a forest!
An Untamed Tongue Stains And Burns And Poisons Life
6 And the tongue is a fire! The[e] tongue is made[f] the world of [g] unrighteousness among our body-parts— the thing staining the whole body and setting-on-fire the course of our existence, and being set-on-fire by Gehenna[h]. 7 For every nature[i] of both wild-animals and birds, of both reptiles and sea-creatures, is tamed and has been tamed by the human nature. 8 But none of mankind is able to tame the tongue— a restless evil, full of death-bringing poison. 9 With it we bless the Lord and Father, and with it we curse the people having been made in accordance with the likeness of God; 10 a blessing and a curse come out of the same mouth.
Such Destruction Ought Not To Proceed From Us
My brothers, these things ought[j] not to be so. 11 The spring does not gush out of the same opening the sweet and the bitter, does it? 12 A fig tree is not able, my brothers, to make olives, or a grapevine figs, is it? Neither is salty water able to make sweet water.
Jesus Is Led Before Pilate, Who Orders Him Crucified To Please The Crowd
15 And immediately, early-in-the-morning, the chief priests (with the elders and scribes) and the whole Sanhedrin having made a consultation[a], having bound Jesus, took Him away and handed Him over to Pilate. 2 And Pilate questioned Him, “Are You the King of the Jews?” And the One, having responded to him, says “You are saying[b] it ”. 3 And the chief priests were accusing Him as to many things. 4 And Pilate again was questioning Him, saying “Are You not answering anything? Look how many things they are accusing You”. 5 But Jesus no longer answered anything, so that Pilate was marveling. 6 Now at the Feast, he was [in the habit of] releasing for them one prisoner whom they were requesting. 7 And the one being called Barabbas had been bound with the rebels[c] who had committed murder in the rebellion[d]. 8 And having come up, the crowd began to ask him to do as he was [in the habit of] doing for them. 9 And Pilate responded to them, saying “Do you want me to release the King of the Jews for you?” 10 For he knew that the chief priests had handed Him over because of envy[e]. 11 But the chief priests stirred-up the crowd in order that he might release Barabbas for them instead.
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