‘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 is full of joy and praise, singing in Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, and the next it is spreading poison and doing dreadful harm. And the question is how can the same spring produce both life-giving water and brackish water? It is unnatural. As James says, ‘These things ought not to be!'
‘My brothers.' Indicating that he is now coming to a kind of summary of what he has been saying.