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Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?

Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.

Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.

But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:

And 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.

Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!

Behold 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.

Behold, we put bits in the horses" mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body.

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.

My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.

So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?

But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?

For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.

While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.

For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;

But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.

So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)

Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.

When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.

Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:

Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice,

But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.

And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;

For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God.

For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house.

Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house.

Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;