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 3:5, 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.
- Proverbs 18:21
Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
- Jeremiah 9:3
And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and th…
- Proverbs 12:18
There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
- Proverbs 15:2
The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright: but the mouth of fools poureth out foolishness.
- Psalms 17:10
They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.
- Psalms 73:8
They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily.
- Psalms 12:2
They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.
- Psalms 52:1
Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God endureth continually.
- Jeremiah 18:18
Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the wor…
- Jude 1:16
These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men’s persons in admiration bec…
- Revelation 13:5
And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.
- Psalms 10:3
For the wicked boasteth of his heart’s desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth.
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.