003:004 So too with ships, great as they are, and often driven along by strong gales, yet they can be steered with a very small rudder in whichever direction the caprice of the man at the helm chooses. 003:005 In the same way the tongue is an insignificant part of the body, but it is immensely boastful. Remember how a mere spark may set a vast forest in flames. 003:006 And the tongue is a fire. That world of iniquity, the tongue, is placed within us spotting and soiling our whole nature, and setting the whole round of our lives on fire, being itself set on fire by Gehenna. 003:007 For brute nature under all its forms--beasts and birds, reptiles and fishes--can be subjected and kept in subjection by human nature. 003:008 But the tongue no man or woman is able to tame. It is an ever-busy mischief, and is full of deadly poison. 003:009 With it we bless the Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who are made in God's likeness. 003:010 Out of the same mouth there proceed blessing and cursing. My brethren, this ought not to be. 003:011 In a fountain, are fresh water and bitter sent forth from the same opening? 003:012 Can a fig-tree, my brethren, yield olives, or a vine yield figs? No; and neither can salt water yield sweet. 003:013 Which of you is a wise and well-instructed man? Let him prove it by a right life with conduct guided by a wisely teachable spirit. 003:014 But if in your hearts you have bitter feelings of envy and rivalry, do not speak boastfully and falsely, in defiance of the truth. 003:015 That is not the wisdom which comes down from above: it belongs to earth, to the unspiritual nature, and to evil spirits. 003:016 For where envy and rivalry are, there also are unrest and every vile deed. 003:017 The wisdom from above is first of all pure, then peaceful, courteous, not self-willed, full of compassion and kind actions, free from favouritism and from all insincerity. 003:018 And peace, for those who strive for peace, is the seed of which the harvest is righteousness. 004:001 What causes wars and contentions among you? Is it not the cravings which are ever at war within you for various pleasures? 004:002 You covet things and yet cannot get them; you commit murder; you have passionate desires and yet cannot gain your end; you begin to fight and make war. You have not, because you do not pray; 004:003 or you pray and yet do not receive, because you pray wrongly, your object being to waste what you get on some pleasure or another. 004:004 You unfaithful women, do you not know that friendship with the world means enmity to God? Therefore whoever is bent on being friendly with the world makes himself an enemy to God.