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The Book of James, Chapter 3, Verse 9

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Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.
King James Version
Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.
American Standard Version
out of the same mouth cometh forth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.
New English Translation
Grieve, mourn, and weep. Turn your laughter into mourning and your joy into despair.
World English Bible
With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who are made in the image of God.
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Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet [water] and bitter?
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Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so [can] no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.
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Who [is] a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.
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But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
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This wisdom descendeth not from above, but [is] earthly, sensual, devilish.
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For where envying and strife [is], there [is] confusion and every evil work.
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But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, [and] easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
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And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.
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From whence [come] wars and fightings among you? [come they] not hence, [even] of your lusts that war in your members?
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Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.