James 3:1

In other versions

• Be not many `of you' teachers, my brethren, knowing that we shall receive heavier judgment.

  ASV

• Do not all be teachers, my brothers, because we teachers will be judged more hardly than others.

  BBE

• Be not many teachers, my brethren, knowing that we shall receive greater judgment.

  DBY

• Let not many of you be teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive heavier judgment.

  WEB

• Many teachers become not, my brethren, having known that greater judgment we shall receive,

  YLT

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

  ENG

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

  WBT

• Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, because you know that we who teach will be judged more strictly.

  BSB

In context

Cross-references

• 1 Timothy 1:7
• Luke 12:47-48
• 1 Peter 5:3
• 1 Corinthians 12:28
• Matthew 23:13
• Matthew 23:8-10
• Romans 2:20-21
• 2 Corinthians 5:10
• 1 Corinthians 11:29-32
• 1 Timothy 2:7