For 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.
KJV
Greek original
Louis Segond 1910
Nous bronchons tous de plusieurs manières. Si quelqu'un ne bronche point en paroles, c'est un homme parfait, capable de tenir tout son corps en bride.
KJV
For 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.
Anonymous
Exhortation to the Bride of Christ
blessing. First Peter 3:9; and also this: If anyone does not offend in speech, he is a perfect man. James 3:2. It is wrong for the lips that confess, pray, bless, and praise the Lord to be tainted by sin. How can someone pray to God with the same lips they use to lie, curse, or s…
Salonius
Mystical Exposition on Ecclesiastes
d neglects nothing," Ecclesiastes 7:18, while the apostle James says, "We all stumble in many ways," James 3:2? Did James or the other apostles not fear God, since they confessed that they stumble in many ways? They were genuinely afraid and made many mistakes, because no one on…
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
from lightness of heart, so as to injure someone's good name at least slightly, for it is written ( James 3:2 ): "If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man." Reply to Objection 3: Augustine is referring to the case when a man utters a slight evil about someone, not…
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