James 3:10

WEB

¹⁰Out of the same mouth comes blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.

KJV

¹⁰Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.

BSB

¹⁰Out of the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, this should not be!

FBV

¹⁰blessings and curses come from the same mouth! Friends, it shouldn't be this way!

Extra References

Romans 12:14

¹⁴Bless those who persecute you; bless, and don’t curse.

1 Peter 3:9

⁹not rendering evil for evil or insult for insult; but instead blessing, knowing that you were called to this, that you may inherit a blessing.

¹⁶But to the wicked God says, “What right do you have to declare my statutes, that you have taken my covenant on your lips, ¹⁷since you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you? ¹⁸When you saw a thief, you consented with him, and have participated with adulterers. ¹⁹“You give your mouth to evil. Your tongue frames deceit. ²⁰You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own mother’s son.

1 Corinthians 3:3

³for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren’t you fleshly, and don’t you walk in the ways of men?

1 Timothy 5:13

¹³Besides, they also learn to be idle, going about from house to house. Not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not.

Micah 3:11

¹¹Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money; yet they lean on the LORD, and say, “Isn’t the LORD among us? No disaster will come on us.”

Genesis 20:9

⁹Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said to him, “What have you done to us? How have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? You have done deeds to me that ought not to be done!”

Jeremiah 7:4-10

⁴Don’t trust in lying words, saying, ‘The LORD’s temple, the LORD’s temple, the LORD’s temple, are these.’ ⁵For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if you thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor; ⁶if you don’t oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don’t shed innocent blood in this place, and don’t walk after other gods to your own hurt, ⁷then I will cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, from of old even forever more. ⁸Behold, you trust in lying words that can’t profit. ⁹Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods that you have not known, ¹⁰then come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, ‘We are delivered,’ that you may do all these abominations?

2 Samuel 13:12

¹²She answered him, “No, my brother, do not force me! For no such thing ought to be done in Israel. Don’t you do this folly!