James 3:4 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁴Behold 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.

James 3:4 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Matthew 8:24
And, behold, there arose a great tempest in the sea, insomuch that the ship was covered with the waves: but he was asleep.
Acts 27:14-38
But not long after there arose against it a tempestuous wind, called Euroclydon. …
Psalms 107:25-27
For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof. …
Jonah 1:4
But the LORD sent out a great wind into the sea, and there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship was like to be broken.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-12)

The foregoing chapter shows how unprofitable and dead faith is without works. It is plainly intimated by what this chapter first goes upon that such a faith is, however, apt to make men conceited and magisterial in their tempers and their talk. Those who set up faith in the manner the former chapter condemns are most apt to run into those sins of the tongue which this chapter condemns. And indeed…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 4)

4. Not only animals, but even ships. the governor listeth--literally, “the impulse of the steersman pleaseth.” The feeling which moves the tongue corresponds with this.