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 3:6, 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.
- Psalms 120:2
Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.
- Proverbs 16:27
An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire.
- Mark 7:15
There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man.
- Matthew 15:11
Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.
- Proverbs 15:1
A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
- Mark 7:20
And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.
- Luke 16:24
And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I a…
- Colossians 3:8
But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
- Proverbs 6:19
A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
- Psalms 64:3
Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:
- Psalms 140:3
They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders’ poison is under their lips. Selah.
- Matthew 12:32
And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgive…
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.