James 3:1-8 ▼

1 My brethren, be not manie maisters, knowyng howe that we shall receaue the greater damnation:

2 For in many thynges we sinne all. If a man sinne not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle all the body.

3 Beholde, we put bittes in the horses mouthes, that they may obey vs, and we turne about all the body of them:

4 Beholde also ye shippes, which though they be so great, and are dryuen of fierce windes, yet are they turned about with a very small helme, whither soeuer the violence of the gouernour wyll.

5 Euen so the tongue is a litle member also, & boasteth great thynges. Beholde how great a matter a litle fire kindleth.

6 And the tongue is fyre, euen a worlde of wickednesse. So is the tongue set among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fyre the course of nature, & it is set on fyre of hell.

7 All the natures of beastes, & of byrdes, and of serpentes, and thynges of the sea, are meeked and tamed of the nature of man:

8 But the tongue can no man tame, it is an vnruly euyll, full of deadly poyson.