Six ways to encounter God here
A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in James 3:2, and Living Bread opens it right there.
Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.
The web of Scripture around it
Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 12 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.
- James 1:26
If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is vain.
- Proverbs 13:3
He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.
- 1 Peter 3:10
For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:
- Matthew 12:37
For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.
- Psalms 34:13
Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
- James 3:5
Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!
- Proverbs 20:9
Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
- 1 John 1:8
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
- Ecclesiastes 7:20
For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.
- Romans 3:10
As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
- James 1:4
But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
- 1 Kings 8:46
If they sin against thee, (for there is no man that sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them …
More to meet God in James
How it points to Christ
Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.