James 3:10 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be. ”

James 3:10 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing - The meaning here may be, either that out of the mouth of man two such opposite things proceed, not referring to the same individual, but to...
James 3:10 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

(8) Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be. (8) Secondly, because the order of nature which God has set in things, will not allow things...
James 3:10 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Do not crowd into the ranks of the teachers, my brothers. You know that we teachers shall be judged more severely than other men; and there are many things in which all of us stumble. This leads to t...
James 3:10 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Out of . App-104. these things, &c . = it is not fitting (Greek. chre. Only here) that these things should so be.
James 3:10 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

This particular truth ought also to be borne in mind, that severe censors discover their own virulence, which they suddenly vomit forth against their brethren whatever curses they can imagine,...
James 3:10 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be. Out of the same mouth - This saying is something like that, Proverbs 18:21 : Death and life are...
James 3:10 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Out of the same mouth proceedeth, &c.— So that "out of one and the same mouth come forth blessings and praises in one mood, and curses in another. Certainly, my Christian brethren, these contra...
James 3:10 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be. The tongue (AEsop) is at once the best and the worst of things. A man with the same breath...
James 3:10 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Control of the Tongue 1, 2. Warning against undue eagerness to teach: cp. Matthew 12:37 ; Matthew 23:7 ; Romans 2:19-20 ; 1 Corinthians 12:28 ; 1 Corinthians 14:26-40 ; Ephesians 4:11 ....
James 3:10 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Ought not. — The Greek equivalent for this is only found here in the New Testament, and seems strangely weak when we reflect on the usual vehemence of the writer. Was he sadly conscious of the fail...
James 3:10 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Chapter 15 THE MORAL CONTRADICTIONS IN THE RECKLESS TALKER. James 3:9-12 IN these concluding sentences of the paragraph respecting sins of the tongue St. James does two things-he shows the mor...
James 3:10 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Bridle the Tongue James 3:1-12 It is much easier to teach people what they should be and do than to obey our own precepts. Even the best of us stumble in many respects; but our most frequent fa...
James 3:10 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The writer now proceeded to show the effect of faith on speech. Beginning with the warning against every man setting up to teach, he proceeded to deal with the power of speech. He likened the tongue...
James 3:10 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation. (2) For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also...
James 3:10 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing ,.... Which is not only a contradiction, but unnatural, as well as wicked and sinful: my brethren, these things ought not so to be : in any, a...
James 3:10 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be. Ver. 10. Out of the same mouth ] As it did once out of the mouth of Pope Julius II, who in the...
James 3:10 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Therewith bless we God That is, therewith mankind bless God; for the apostle, as appears from the next clause, did not speak of himself particularly, or of his fellow-apostles, or even of true priv...
James 3:10 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Here we begin a fourth division of the book, which continues to the end of Ch.4; in which our walk is tested by the circumstances of the world. Certainly in the previous Chapter s there is emphasis a...
James 3:10 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Government of the Tongue. A. D. 61. 1 My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall...
James 3:10 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

He repeats here, by way of exaggeration, what he had said James 3:9 , to show how exceedingly absurd it is that two such contrary actions should proceed from the same agent. These things ought no...
James 3:10 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘Out of the same mouth comes forth blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.' So the same mouth produces blessing and cursing. How treacherous the tongue is. One moment it...
James 3:10 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES James 3:5 . A matter. —Better, “a forest.” The picture presented is of the wrapping of some vast forest in a flame by the falling of a single spark. Philo uses th...
James 3:10 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

James 3:1 . Be not many masters: διδασκαλοι, teachers. In some assemblies they might all prophesy one by one, but no man should be too forward; he will never shine as a teacher, unless he be a t...
James 3:10 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION James 3:1-59 WARNING AGAINST OVER - READINESS TO TEACH , LEADING TO A DISCOURSE ON THE IMPORTANCE OF GOVERNMENT OF THE TONGUE . James 3:1 (...
James 3:10 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Warning against the abuse of the tongue:
James 3:10 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 3:3 ; 1 Peter 3:9 ; 1 Timothy 5:13 ; 2 Samuel 13:12 ; Genesis 20:9 ; Jeremiah 7:4-10 ; Micah 3:11 ; Psalms 50:16-20 ; Romans 12:14

James 3:10 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

James 3:10 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

James 3:10 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

James 3:10 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

James 3:10 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

James 3:10 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

James 3:10 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

James 3:10 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

James 3:10 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

James 3:10 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

James 3:10 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

James 3:10 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

James 3:10 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

James 3:10 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

James 3:10 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

James 3:10 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

James 3:10 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

James 3:10 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

James 3:10 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

James 3:10 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

James 3:10 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

James 3:10 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

James 3:10 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

James 3:10 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

James 3:10 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

James 3:10 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge