James · Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)
James 3 Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)
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1 Hermanos míos, no se hagan maestros muchos de ustedes, sabiendo que los maestros recibiremos un juicio más severo.
1 Let not many of you be teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive heavier judgment.
2 Porque todos fallamos de muchas maneras. Si alguien no falla en lo que dice, es una persona madura, capaz también de controlar todo su cuerpo.
2 For we all stumble in many things. Anyone who doesn’t stumble in word is a perfect person, able to bridle the whole body also.
3 Ponemos freno en la boca de los caballos para que nos obedezcan, y así dirigimos todo su cuerpo.
3 Indeed, we put bits into the horses’ mouths so that they may obey us, and we guide their whole body.
4 Miren también los barcos. Aunque son grandes y los empujan vientos fuertes, son dirigidos por un timón muy pequeño hacia donde quiere el piloto.
4 Behold, the ships also, though they are so big and are driven by fierce winds, are yet guided by a very small rudder, wherever the pilot desires.
5 Así también la lengua es un miembro pequeño, pero se jacta de grandes cosas. Miren qué gran bosque puede incendiar un fuego tan pequeño.
5 So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest!
6 La lengua también es un fuego, un mundo de maldad. La lengua está puesta entre nuestros miembros, contamina todo el cuerpo, enciende todo el curso de la vida, y ella misma es encendida por el infierno.
6 And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna.
7 Toda clase de animales, aves, reptiles y seres del mar puede ser domada, y ha sido domada por el ser humano.
7 For every kind of animal, bird, creeping thing, and sea creature is tamed, and has been tamed by mankind;
8 Pero ningún ser humano puede domar la lengua. Es un mal inquieto, lleno de veneno mortal.
8 but nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.
9 Con ella bendecimos a nuestro Señor y Padre, y con ella maldecimos a los hombres, hechos a la semejanza de Dios.
9 With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men who are made in the image of God.
10 De la misma boca salen bendición y maldición. Hermanos míos, esto no debe ser así.
10 Out of the same mouth comes blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.
11 ¿Acaso una fuente echa por la misma abertura agua dulce y amarga?
11 Does a spring send out from the same opening fresh and bitter water?
12 Hermanos míos, ¿puede la higuera producir aceitunas, o la vid higos? Tampoco una fuente salada puede dar agua dulce.
12 Can a fig tree, my brothers, yield olives, or a vine figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh water.
13 ¿Quién es sabio y entendido entre ustedes? Que muestre por su buena conducta sus obras hechas con la mansedumbre que viene de la sabiduría.
13 Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good conduct that his deeds are done in gentleness of wisdom.
14 Pero si tienen en su corazón envidia amarga y rivalidad, no se jacten ni mientan contra la verdad.
14 But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and don’t lie against the truth.
15 Esta sabiduría no desciende de arriba, sino que es terrenal, natural y diabólica.
15 This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic.
16 Porque donde hay envidia y rivalidad, allí hay desorden y toda obra mala.
16 For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed.
17 Pero la sabiduría que viene de arriba es primero pura, luego pacífica, amable, dispuesta a ceder, llena de misericordia y de buenos frutos, sin favoritismo y sin hipocresía.
17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
18 Y el fruto de justicia se siembra en paz para los que hacen la paz.
18 Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.
Cross references (16)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 1 Timothy 1:7; Luke 12:47–48; 1 Peter 5:3; Matthew 23:13; 1 Corinthians 12:28
- 2 James 1:26; Proverbs 13:3; 1 Peter 3:10; Matthew 12:37; Psalm 34:13
- 3 Psalm 32:9; Psalm 39:1; James 1:26; 2 Kings 19:28
- 4 Matthew 8:24; Psalm 107:25–27; Acts 27:14–38
- 5 Proverbs 18:21; Proverbs 12:18; Jeremiah 9:3–8; Proverbs 15:2; Psalm 17:10
- 6 Psalm 120:2–3; Proverbs 16:27; Mark 7:15; Matthew 15:11–20; Proverbs 15:1
- 8 Romans 3:13; Psalm 140:3; Psalm 55:21; James 3:6; Psalm 57:4
- 9 Psalm 10:7; Genesis 1:26–27; Genesis 9:6; Psalm 62:4; Psalm 59:12
- 10 Romans 12:14; 1 Peter 3:9; 1 Corinthians 3:3; Psalm 50:16–20; 1 Timothy 5:13
- 12 Luke 6:43–44; Matthew 12:33; Matthew 7:16–20; Jeremiah 2:21; Romans 11:16–18
- 13 Galatians 5:23; James 3:17; Matthew 5:5; Colossians 3:12; 1 Peter 2:12
- 14 James 3:16; 1 Corinthians 13:4; Philippians 2:3; 1 Corinthians 3:3; Romans 13:13
- 15 James 3:17; James 1:17; 1 Corinthians 3:19; Philippians 3:19; 1 Corinthians 2:14
- 16 James 3:14; 1 Corinthians 3:3; 1 Corinthians 14:33; 1 John 3:12; Galatians 5:20
- 17 Galatians 5:22–23; Proverbs 2:6; 1 Corinthians 13:4–7; James 3:15; Romans 12:9
- 18 Matthew 5:9; Hosea 10:12; Philippians 1:11; Isaiah 32:16–17; Galatians 6:8
Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences
What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
How these were chosen
“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
"I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them?" At times I read and hear: "My brethren, be not many masters, seeing that ye shall receive the greater condemnation: for in many things we offend all." "I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them?" But see, I rise and open.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 7 (1888)