| My grateful thanks go to Ds H. van Wingerden in the
Netherlands, for his invaluable help in scanning and correcting many of Manton's works. |
| CHAPTER 3. 1 | My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation. |
| CHAPTER 3. 2 | For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able to bridle the whole body. |
| CHAPTER 3. 3,4 | Behold, we put bite into horses' mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole bodies. Behold also the ships, which, though they be great, and driven of fierce winds, yet they are turned about with a small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth. |
| CHAPTER 3. 5 | Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things: behold how great a matter a little fire kindleth! |
| CHAPTER 3. 6 | And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among the members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell. |
| CHAPTER 3. 7, 8 | For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind; but the tongue can no man tame: it is an unruly evil, and full of deadly poison. |
| CHAPTER 3. 9 | Therewith we bless God, even the Father; and therewith we curse men, that are made after the similitude of God. |
| CHAPTER 3.10 | Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not to be so. |
| CHAPTER 3.11,12 | Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter? Can the fig-tree, my brethren, bear olive-berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain yield both salt water and fresh. |
| CHAPTER 3.13 | Who is a wise man, and endued with knowledge among you? let him show out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom. |
| CHAPTER 3.14 | But if ye have bitter envying and strife in our hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. |
| CHAPTER 3.15 | This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. |
| CHAPTER 3.16 | For where envying and strife is, there is confusion, and every evil work. |
| CHAPTER 3.17 | But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. |
| CHAPTER 3.18 | And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them, that make peace. |
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