James 2:11

2:11 For he who said, “Do not commit adultery,” ¹  also said, “Do not murder.” ²  Now if you do not commit adultery but do commit murder, you have become a violator of the law.

James 3:6

3:6 And the tongue is a fire! The tongue represents ³  the world of wrongdoing among the parts of our bodies. It ⁴  pollutes the entire body and sets fire to the course of human existence – and is set on fire by hell. ⁵ 

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¹ sn A quotation from Exod 20:14 and Deut 5:18.

² sn A quotation from Exod 20:13 and Deut 5:17.

³ tn Grk “makes itself,” “is made.”

⁴ tn Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.

⁵ sn The word translated hell is “Gehenna” (γέεννα, geenna), a Greek transliteration of the Hebrew words ge hinnom (“Valley of Hinnom”). This was the valley along the south side of Jerusalem. In OT times it was used for human sacrifices to the pagan god Molech (cf. Jer 7:31; 19:5-6; 32:35), and it came to be used as a place where human excrement and rubbish were disposed of and burned. In the intertestamental period, it came to be used symbolically as the place of divine punishment (cf. 1 En. 27:2, 90:26; 4 Ezra 7:36).