James 3:4 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth. ”

James 3:4 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Behold also the ships - This illustration is equally striking and obvious. A ship is a large object. It seems to be unmanageable by its vastness, and it is also impelled by driving storms. Yet it...
James 3:4 - 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 3:4 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Behold . App-133. also the ships . the ships also. of . App-104. fierce . Greek. skleros. Elsewhere translated "hard". with . Same as "of". helm . Greek. pedalion. Only here and Acts...
James 3:4 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth.
James 3:4 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Whithersoever the governor listeth— Whithersoever the action of the pilot directs. Heylin. Whithersoever the steersman pleaseth. Doddridge; who remarks, "I know not how to express in English th...
James 3:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth. Not only animals, bu...
James 3:4 - 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 3:4 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

The governor — i.e. , the “helmsman,” from the Latin gubernator. The Venerable Bede, our earliest English translator, refers the ships here to an image of ourselves, and the winds to the impulse...
James 3:4 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Chapter 14 HEAVY RESPONSIBILITIES OF TEACHERS-THE POWERS AND PROPENSITIES OF THE TONGUE-THE SELF-DEFILEMENT OF THE RECKLESS TALKER. James 3:1-8 FROM the "idle faith" St. James goes on to speak...
James 3:4 - 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 3:4 - 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 3:4 - 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 3:4 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

CHRISTIAN ABILITY ‘Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small belm, whithersoever the governor listeth.’ J...
James 3:4 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Behold also the ships, which though they be so great ,.... Of so large a bulk, of such a prodigious size, and are such unwieldy vessels: and are driven of fierce winds ; with great vehemence, rapi...
James 3:4 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth. Ver. 4. Whithersoev...
James 3:4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Behold , &c. As if the apostle had said, Think not the tongue a weak member because it is small; we put bits in the horses' mouths that they may obey us May go as we direct them; and , strong...
James 3:4 - 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 3:4 - 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 3:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The other similitude, in which a man is compared to a ship, the tongue to the rudder, the governing the whole body to the turning about the ship. As the rudder is but a small thing, in comparison of...
James 3:4 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘Behold, the ships also, though they are so great and are driven by rough winds, are yet turned about by a very small rudder, wherever the will of the steersman directs.' The thought of ‘turning abo...
James 3:4 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

OUR SINS OF SPEECH CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES James 3:1 . Masters. —Teachers. In the sixteenth century “master” meant “schoolmaster.” Do not get into the way of being teachers. Do not set...
James 3:4 - 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 3:4 - 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 3:4 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Caution against False Activity in Teaching and the Use of the Tongue. The danger of teaching and much speaking:
James 3:4 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Acts 27:14 ; Jonah 1:4 ; Matthew 8:24 ; Psalms 107:25-27

James 3:4 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

James 3:4 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

James 3:4 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

James 3:4 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

James 3:4 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

James 3:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

James 3:4 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

James 3:4 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

James 3:4 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

James 3:4 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

James 3:4 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

James 3:4 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

James 3:4 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

James 3:4 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

James 3:4 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

James 3:4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

James 3:4 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

James 3:4 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

James 3:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

James 3:4 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

James 3:4 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

James 3:4 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

James 3:4 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

James 3:4 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

James 3:4 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge