James 3:11
Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?
Doeth a fountaine send foorth at the same ‖place sweet water and bitter?
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James 3:11
Third-person singular present form of do: does.
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1. Outward, away, or forward from a place, person, possession, or former position. 2. In constructions of bearing or producing, into birth, growth, fruit, or another stated result. 3. With verbs such as put, stretch, spread, or reach, outward by extension or exertion. 4. In constructions of showing, speaking, issuing, or displaying, into view, expression, publication, or effect. 5. Onward from a stated time or point, as in from that time forth.
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Sense 1: A physical location or room. Sense 2: A position or office. Sense 3: An occasion, circumstance, or passage. Sense 4: To set, fix, locate, or establish.
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Sense 1: Pleasing to the taste or smell. Sense 2: Pleasant, agreeable, or delightful to the senses or mind.
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Sense 1: The common liquid necessary for life. Sense 2: As a verb, to supply with water, irrigate, or cause to drink.
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Having a sharp, unpleasant taste opposed to sweet; grievous, harsh, painful, sorrowful, resentful, or severe in condition, feeling, speech, or effect.
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3:1MY brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.
3:1¶ My brethren, bee not many masters, knowing that we shall receiue the greater ‖condemnation.
3:2For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.
3:2For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.
3:3Behold, we put bits in the horses’ mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body.
3:3Behold, we put bittes in the horses mouthes, that they may obey vs, and we turne about their whole body.
3:4Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth.
3:4Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driuen of fierce windes, yet are they turned about with a very small helme, whithersoeuer the gouernour listeth.
3:5Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!
3:5Euen so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things: behold, how great ‖a matter a litle fire kindleth.
3:6And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
3:6And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquitie: so is the tongue amongst our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature, and it is set on fire of hell.
3:7For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:
3:7For euery †kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of †mankind.
3:8But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
3:8But the tongue can no man tame, it is an vnruly euill, ful of deadly poyson.
3:9Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.
3:9Therewith blesse wee God, euen the Father: and therewith curse wee men, which are made after the similitude of God.
3:10Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.
3:10Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing: my brethren, these things ought not so to be.
3:11Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?
3:11Doeth a fountaine send foorth at the same ‖place sweet water and bitter?
Selected passage3:12Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.
3:12Can y e figtree, my brethren, beare oliue berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountaine both yeeld salt water & fresh.