INTERMEDIATE
AGE: 12 - 13
YEARS
STANDARD/GRADE:
VII & VIII
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LESSON – 10
TAMING THE TONGUE (JAMES 3:1–18)
1.
My brethren, let not many of you become teachers,
knowing that we shall receive a stricter judgment.
2.
For we all stumble in many things. If anyone does
not stumble in word, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle the whole
body.
3.
Indeed, we put bits in horses’ mouths that they may
obey us, and we turn their whole body.
4.
Look also at ships: although they are so large and
are driven by fierce winds, they are turned by a very small rudder wherever the
pilot desires.
5.
Even so the tongue is a little member and boasts
great things. See how great a forest a little fire kindles!
6.
And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. The
tongue is so set among our members that it defiles the whole body, and sets on
fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by hell.
7.
For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and
creature of the sea, is tamed and has been tamed by mankind.
8.
But no man can tame the tongue. It is an unruly
evil, full of deadly poison.
9.
With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we
curse men, who have been made in the similitude of God.
10. Out of
the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought
not to be so.
11. Does a
spring send forth fresh water and bitter from the same opening?
12. Can a fig
tree, my brethren, bear olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Thus no spring yields
both salt water and fresh.
13. Who is
wise and understanding among you? Let him show by good conduct that his works
are done in the meekness of wisdom.
14. But if
you have bitter envy and self-seeking in your hearts, do not boast and lie
against the truth.
15. This
wisdom does not descend from above, but is earthly, sensual, demonic.
16. For where
envy and self-seeking exist, confusion and every evil thing are there.
17. But the
wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to
yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy.
18. Now the
fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.
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