James 3:2

We all stumble in many ways, but anyone who never sins in speech is mature, able to control his whole body. Mastery of the tongue marks spiritual maturity.

Cross-references · 23

• Jas 1:26If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless.
• Prov 13:3He who guards his mouth guards his soul. One who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.
• 1 Pet 3:10For, “He who would love life, and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil, and his lips from speaking deceit.
• Matt 12:37For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”
• Jas 3:5–6So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest!
• Ps 34:13Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking lies.
• Prov 20:9Who can say, “I have made my heart pure. I am clean and without sin?”
• 1 Jn 1:8–10If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
• Eccl 7:20Surely there is not a righteous man on earth, who does good and doesn’t sin.
• Rom 3:10As it is written, “There is no one righteous; no, not one.
• Jas 1:4Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
• 1 Kgs 8:46If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn’t sin), and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near;
• 1 Cor 9:27but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.
• Jas 2:10For whoever keeps the whole law, and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.
• Isa 64:6For we have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
• Heb 13:21make you complete in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
• 2 Chr 6:36“If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn’t sin), and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to a land far off or near;
• Col 4:12Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, salutes you, always striving for you in his prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.
• Col 1:28whom we proclaim, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus;
• 1 Pet 5:10But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.
• Gal 3:22But the Scriptures imprisoned all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.
• Gal 5:17For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.
• Rom 7:21I find then the law, that, to me, while I desire to do good, evil is present.

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