9 with it we do bless the God and Father, and with it we do curse the men made according to the similitude of God;
for a man, indeed, ought not to cover the head, being the image and glory of God, and a woman is the glory of a man,
Then began he to anathematise, and to swear -- `I have not known the man;' and immediately did a cock crow,
And God saith, `Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness, and let them rule over fish of the sea, and over fowl of the heavens, and over cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that is creeping on the earth.' And God prepareth the man in His image; in the image of God He prepared him, a male and a female He prepared them.
because of this was my heart cheered, and my tongue was glad, and yet -- my flesh also shall rest on hope,
For many times also hath thy heart known that thou thyself also hast reviled others.
So I bless Thee in my life, in Thy name I lift up my hands.
Blessed `is' the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, according to the abundance of His kindness did beget us again to a living hope, through the rising again of Jesus Christ out of the dead,
but I -- I say to you, Love your enemies, bless those cursing you, do good to those hating you, and pray for those accusing you falsely, and persecuting you,
Praise by David. I exalt Thee, my God, O king, And bless Thy name to the age and for ever.
And he loveth reviling, and it meeteth him, And he hath not delighted in blessing, And it is far from him. And he putteth on reviling as his robe, And it cometh in as water into his midst, And as oil into his bones.
My tongue also all the day uttereth Thy righteousness, Because ashamed -- because confounded, Have been those seeking my evil!
This `is' an account of the births of Adam: In the day of God's preparing man, in the likeness of God He hath made him;
The sin of their mouth `is' a word of their lips, And they are captured in their pride, And from the curse and lying they recount.
Awake, mine honour, awake, psaltery and harp, I awake the morning dawn.
And my tongue uttereth Thy righteousness, All the day Thy praise!
By David, in his changing his behaviour before Abimelech, and he driveth him away, and he goeth. I do bless Jehovah at all times, Continually His praise `is' in my mouth.
Therefore hath my heart been glad, And my honour doth rejoice, Also my flesh dwelleth confidently:
Of oaths his mouth is full, And deceits, and fraud: Under his tongue `is' perverseness and iniquity,
And David blesseth Jehovah before the eyes of all the assembly, and David saith, `Blessed `art' Thou, Jehovah, God of Israel our father, from age even unto age.
And Abishai son of Zeruiah answereth and saith, `For this is not Shimei put to death -- because he reviled the anointed of Jehovah?'
and go out into the field, and gather their vineyards, and tread, and make praises, and go into the house of their god, and eat and drink, and revile Abimelech.
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Commentary on James 3 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 3
The apostle here reproves ambition, and an arrogant magisterial tongue; and shows the duty and advantage of bridling it because of its power to do mischief. Those who profess religion ought especially to govern their tongues (v. 1-12). True wisdom makes men meek, and avoiders of strife and envy: and hereby it may easily be distinguished from a wisdom that is earthly and hypocritical (v. 13-18).
Jam 3:1-12
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. Those who set up faith in the manner the former chapter condemns are most apt to run into those sins of the tongue which this chapter condemns. And indeed the best need to be cautioned against a dictating, censorious, mischievous use of their tongues. We are therefore taught,
Jam 3:13-18
As the sins before condemned arise from an affectation of being thought more wise than others, and being endued with more knowledge than they, so the apostle in these verses shows the difference between men's pretending to be wise and their being really so, and between the wisdom which is from beneath (from earth or hell) and that which is from above.