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James 3:9 KJV
James · chapter 3 · verse 9
Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.James 3:9 · King James Version
James 3:9 in context
7For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:
8But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
9Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.
10Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.
11Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- similitudehomoiōsisa making like, likeness after the likeness of GodG3669 →
- Therewithenin, by, with etcG1722 →
- Therewithautoshimself, herself, themselves, itself, he, she, it, the sameG846 →
- Fatherpatērgenerator or male ancestor, either the nearest ancestor father of the corporeal nature…G3962 →
- afterkatadown from, through out, according to, toward, alongG2596 →
- madeginomaito becomeG1096 →
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The foregoing chapter shows how unprofitable and dead faith is without works. It is plainly intimated by what this chapter first goes upon that such a faith is, however, apt to make men conceited and magisterial in their tempers and their talk.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-12