Jam 3:10 | RWP | e4.org | Ought not ( ου χρη ). The only use of this old impersonal verb (from χραω ) in the N.T. It is more like πρεπε (it is appropriate) than δε (it is necessary). It is a moral incongruity for blessing and cursing to come out of the same mouth. So to be ( ουτως γινεσθα ). "So to keep on happening," not just "to be," present middle infinitive of γινομα .

‏ James 3:10

Ought not ( ου χρη ). The only use of this old impersonal verb (from χραω ) in the N.T. It is more like πρεπε (it is appropriate) than δε (it is necessary). It is a moral incongruity for blessing and cursing to come out of the same mouth.

So to be ( ουτως γινεσθα ). "So to keep on happening," not just "to be," present middle infinitive of γινομα.