Tiago 3

Te Arero

1 Kei tokomaha koutou ki te whakaako, e ōku tēina, e mātau ana hoki koutou rahi ake te hē e tau ki a tātou. 2 He maha hoki ngā mea e tapepa ai tātou katoa. Ki te kore tētahi e tapepa i te kupu, he tino tika tēnā tangata, e taea anō e ia te paraire te tinana katoa.

3 Nā, ka pangā nei e tātou ngā paraire ki ngā māngai o ngā hōiho, kia rongo ai rātou ki a tātou; ā, pareparea ana e tātou tō rātou tinana katoa. 4 Whakaaroa ngā kaipuke, ngā mea nunui rawa nei, he mea āki nei e ngā hau kaha, heoi, e pareparea ana e te urungi nohinohi rawa ki te wāhi e hiahia ai te hinengaro o te kaiurungi. 5 Waihoki ko te arero he wāhi nohinohi ia, nui atu hoki tōna whakapehapeha. Nanā, te nui o te wahie e whakaūngia ana e te ahi nohinohi! 6 He kāpura anō hoki te arero, ko te ao māori o te kino; pērā tonu te arero i roto i ō tātou wāhi, poke iho i a ia te tinana katoa, ngiha ana i a ia huri noa ngā mea katoa o te tangata, he mea whakaū anō ia nā te rēinga.

7 Ko ngā momo kararehe katoa hoki, ko ngā manu, ko ngā mea ngōkingōki, ko ngā mea i te moana, e whakararatatia ana, kua whakararatatia anō hoki i mua e te tangata. 8 Ko te arero ia e kore tēnā e taea e tētahi tangata te whakarata; he kino ia e kore e taea te pēhi, kī tonu i te wai whakamate.

9 Ko tā tātou mea ia hei whakapai i te Atua, i te Matua; ko tā tātou mea anō ia hei kanga i ngā tāngata, i hangā kia rite ki te Atua. 10 Kotahi tonu te māngai puta ake ana i roto ko te manaaki, ko te kanga. Ehara i te pai, e ōku tēina, kia pēnei ēnei mea. 11 E pupū ake ana rānei i te puna ko te reka, ko te kawa, i roto i te poka kotahi? 12 E hua rānei he ōriwa mā te piki, e ōku tēina, he piki rānei mā te wāina? E kore anō hoki e pupū ake i te wai tai he wai reka.

Mātauranga mai Runga

13 Ko wai te tangata whakaaro nui, te tangata mātau i roto i a koutou? Mā tōna whakahaere pai e whakaatu āna mahi, kei runga i te māhaki o te whakaaro nui. 14 Tēnā ko tēnei, he hae nanakia tō koutou, he totohe i roto i ō koutou ngākau, kaua e whakamanamana, kaua hoki e teka ki te pono. 15 Ehara tēnei mātauranga i te mea e heke iho ana i runga; nō te whenua ia, nō te ngākau māori, nō te rēwera. 16 I te wāhi hoki e noho ai te hae me te totohe, ko reira anō te noho kino me ngā mahi hē katoa.

17 Ko te mātauranga ia o runga, he mea kinokore i te tuatahi, muri iho he rangimārie, he ngāwari, he hohoro ki te whakarongo, kī tonu i te mahi tohu, i ngā hua pai, kāhore āna whiriwhiringa i te tangata, kāhore ōna tinihanga. 18 Ā, e ruia ana ngā hua o te tika i roto i te rangimārie mā te hunga hohou rongo.

1 Be not many of you teachers, my brethren, knowing that we shall receive heavier judgment. 2 For in many things we all stumble. If any stumbleth not in word, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also. 3 Now if we put the horses’ bridles into their mouths that they may obey us, we turn about their whole body also. 4 Behold, the ships also, though they are so great and are driven by rough winds, are yet turned about by a very small rudder, whither the impulse of the steersman willeth. 5 So the tongue also is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how much wood is kindled by how small a fire! 6 And the tongue is a fire: the world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the wheel of nature, and is set on fire by hell. 7 For every kind of beasts and birds, of creeping things and things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed by mankind: 8 but the tongue can no man tame; it is a restless evil, it is full of deadly poison. 9 Therewith bless we the Lord and Father; and therewith curse we men, who are made after the likeness of God: 10 out of the same mouth cometh forth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be. 11 Doth the fountain send forth from the same opening sweet water and bitter? 12 can a fig tree, my brethren, yield olives, or a vine figs? neither can salt water yield sweet.

13 Who is wise and understanding among you? let him show by his good life his works in meekness of wisdom. 14 But if ye have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, glory not and lie not against the truth. 15 This wisdom is not a wisdom that cometh down from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. 16 For where jealousy and faction are, there is confusion and every vile deed. 17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without variance, without hypocrisy. 18 And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace for them that make peace.