James 3:10
Modern Translations
New International Version
Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing. My brothers and sisters, this should not be.

New Living Translation
And so blessing and cursing come pouring out of the same mouth. Surely, my brothers and sisters, this is not right!

English Standard Version
From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.

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

New American Standard Bible
from the same mouth come both blessing and cursing. My brothers and sisters, these things should not be this way.

NASB 1995
from the same mouth come both blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not to be this way.

NASB 1977
from the same mouth come both blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not to be this way.

Amplified Bible
Out of the same mouth come both blessing and cursing. These things, my brothers, should not be this way [for we have a moral obligation to speak in a manner that reflects our fear of God and profound respect for His precepts].

Christian Standard Bible
Blessing and cursing come out of the same mouth. My brothers and sisters, these things should not be this way.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Praising and cursing come out of the same mouth. My brothers, these things should not be this way.

Good News Translation
Words of thanksgiving and cursing pour out from the same mouth. My friends, this should not happen!

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Praise and curses come from the same mouth. My brothers and sisters, this should not happen!

International Standard Version
From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. It should not be like this, my brothers!

NET Bible
From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. These things should not be so, my brothers and sisters.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.

New King James Version
Out of the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not to be so.

King James 2000 Bible
Out of the same mouth proceeds blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.

New Heart English Bible
Out of the same mouth comes forth blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.

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

American King James Version
Out of the same mouth proceeds blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not so to be.

American Standard Version
out of the same mouth cometh forth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.

A Faithful Version
From the same mouth comes out blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not to be so!

Darby Bible Translation
Out of the same mouth goes forth blessing and cursing. It is not right, my brethren, that these things should be thus.

English Revised Version
out of the same mouth cometh forth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.

Webster's Bible Translation
Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Out of one mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing: my brethren, these things ought not so to be.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Out of one mouth proceadeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these thynges ought not so to be.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
Out of one mouth proceadeth blessynge and cursynge. My brethre these thinges ought not so to be.

Tyndale Bible of 1526
Out of one mouth proceadeth blessynge and cursynge. My brethren these thinges ought not so to be.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
out of the same mouth comes forth blessing and cursing; it does not need, my brothers, these things to so happen;

Berean Literal Bible
Out of the same mouth proceed forth blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.

Young's Literal Translation
out of the same mouth doth come forth blessing and cursing; it doth not need, my brethren, these things so to happen;

Smith's Literal Translation
Out of the same month comes forth blessing and cursing. There is no need, my brethren, for these things so to be.

Literal Emphasis Translation
From out of the same mouth come/go out blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.

Catholic Public Domain Version
From the same mouth proceeds blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so!

Translations from Aramaic
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
From the mouth proceeds blessing and cursing, my brethren. These things ought not so to be done.

Lamsa Bible
Out of the same mouth proceed curses and blessings. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.

NT Translations
Anderson New Testament
Out of the same mouth come forth blessing and cursing. These things, my brethren, ought not so to be.

Godbey New Testament
out of the same mouth come forth blessing and scolding. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.

Haweis New Testament
Out of the same mouth goeth forth blessing and cursing. These things, my brethren, ought not to be thus.

Mace New Testament
from the same mouth shall blessing and cursing proceed? this ought not to be practis'd, my brethren;

Weymouth New Testament
Out of the same mouth there proceed blessing and cursing. My brethren, this ought not to be.

Worrell New Testament
Out of the same mouth come forth blessing and cursing! My brethren, these things ought not so to be.

Worsley New Testament
out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. These things, my brethren, ought not so to be.
















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